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Barnstead Reunion 



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BARNSTEAD, N. H 



August 30, 1882, 



laHTKl) BY 



HORACE N. COLBATH. 



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CONCORD, N. H. : 

PRINTED BY IRA C. EVANS. 
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At a meeting of tlie Barnstead Reunion Association, it 
was — Voted, 

That the thanks of this Association be presented to the 
President, Charles Smith George, Esq., for his admirable 
address of welcome ; to Alonzo Hall Quint, d. d., for his 
interesting and eloquent oration ; to Laura Garland Carr, 
and Hanson Caverno Canney, m. d., for pertinent and beauti- 
ful poems ; to Mrs. Darius Frink, for an appropriate hymn ; 
and to Hon. J. G. Sinclair, Hon. H. A. Tuttle, Col. E. S. 
Nutter, Hon. C. M. Murphy, Rev. Frank H. Lyford, Hon. 
J. P. Jewell, John D. Nutter, Esq., and Howard A. Dodge, 
Esq., for addresses and respqnses to sentiments, and that 
they be requested to furnish a copy of the same for publi- 
cation. 

That our thanks are due John B. Garland, Esq., Hon. 
Henry H. Huse, Rev. S. D. Jewett, Col. James S. Hoitt, 
Col. Thomas E. Barker, J. C. Scriggins, Esq., and William 
G. Drew, for congratulatory letters. 

Voted, Tiiat Horace Nutter Colbath be chosen to edit 
and publish the history of the Barnstead Reunion, held 
August 30, 1882, including addresses, oration, poems, sen- 
timents, and letters, and such other matter as he may deem 
proper. 

Attest : 

JOHN H. JENKINS, 

Recording- Secretary. 




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CONTENTS 



V^ote of Publication, . . . . 


2 


i^ditor Appointed, 


2 


introduction, ...... 


5 


v).Rcers of the Association, 


7 


Lxccutive Committee, . . . . 


8 


Town Committee, . . . . . 


8 


Auxiliary Committee, . . . . 


8 


Other Committees, 


9 


Programme, ...... 


12 


List of Sentiments, 


13 


Address of Welcome, by C. S. George, 


15 


Poem, by Laura G. Carr, . 


22 


The Dinner, - . 


26 


Poem, by H. C. Canney, . 


26 


Letter from S. D. Jewett, 


28 


" "J. C. Scriggins, 


30 


" " William G. Drew, . 


32 


Address by H. A. Tuttle, 


32 


" " E. S. IS'utter, ^ 


34 


" M. B. Y. Edgerly, 


36 


" " C. M. Murphy, 


37 


" J. P. :^ew^\\, 


38 


" F. H. Lyford, 


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" J. D. Nutter, 


43 


" J. H. Kent, . 


46 


Letter from J. S. Hoitt, . 


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Letter from T. E. Barker, 

" " H. H. Huse, . 
Hymn, by Mrs. Darius Frink, 
Address by H. A. Dodge, 

" " J. G. Sinclair, 
Letter of J. B. Garland, . 
Biographical Sketch of Enos George, 

" H. A. Tuttle, 



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" J. G. Sinclaii-, 

" M. Y. B. Edgcrly 

'' C. M. Murphy, 

" Lewis Clark, 

" J. P. Newell, 

'' J. H. Kent, . 

" J. R. Hayes, 

" H. C. Canney, 

" George W. Emerson. 

" Geo. S. Pendergast, 

" Harriet P. Dame, 

" Nancy Pendergast. 

" J. D. Nuttei-, 



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INTRODUCTION 



Barnstead, New Hampshire, situated in the 
southwestern part of Belknap county, northeast 
from Concord twenty miles, and bordering on the 
counties of Merrimack and Strafford, contains 
thirty-six square miles of territory. Was char- 
tered by Gov. Wentworth May 20, 1727. Con- 
taining-, in 1880, 1,317 inhabitants. 

On the east lie the Blue Hills, on the north are 
the Alton and Gilmanton mountains, and on the 
south lies the Catamount, looking down on the 
valley of the Suncook river as it passes the west- 
erly boundary of the town. It is a region of hill 
and valley, of beautiful rivers and ponds, and 
laughing bi'ooks. 

A community born and educated amid such 
scener}^ breathing the air of its hills and drink- 
ing the waters that flow in hundreds of rills down 
its hillsides, till they form the Suncook, — must 
love their childhood home. For the past fifty 
years Barnstead has been sending out her sons 
and daughters to other parts of the land to find 
new homes. Its first emigrants found homes in 
Massachusetts, Yermont, and I^ew York, and 
afterwards they sought Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, 
and Wisconsin. As new territory was opened, 



6 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

they helped swell the mighty stream of emigration 
that has peopled the great West. 

To-day they may be found in twenty-eight 
states and territories. Some of its sons and 
daughters are looking out on the Pacific, others 
are in the valley of the Father of Waters or are 
fanned by the soft winds of the Gulf. 

Scattered over the land, these emigrants have 
ever yearned for the home of their fathers, while 
those who remained around the old hearthstones 
were eager to once more clasp the hands of loved 
ones, look once more into long remembered faces, 
and hear once again the voices that were music to 
their youthful ears. 

This was especially true of those who had 
passed the meridian and were nearing the sunset 
of life. 

13y a sort of common consent, residents and 
emigrants seemed ready for a Reunion of the 
children of old Barnstead. 

The question has been asked, Where did the idea 
of this reunion originate? This may be a fitting 
13lace for answering that question. During the 
winter of 1877-78, a few of the sons and daugh- 
ters of Barnstead residing in Concord, N^. H., 
prominent among whom wei"e Col. E. S. Nutter, 
J. L. Pickering, Esq., George W. Drew, Esq., 
Mrs. James E.. Hill, and Laura Garland Carr, de- 
termined to hold a reunion of the sons and daugh- 
ters of Barnstead living in Concord, with invited 
guests from the mother town and other places in 
New Hampshire where Barnstead sons had located. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 7 

Such a I'eunion was held on the evening of Feb- 
ruary 28, 1878, at the Phenix Hotel, in Concord. 
There were present from Barnstead, a delegation 
of sixty citizens, led by the Barnstead Brass Band. 

Col. E. S. JSTutter presided and made the recep- 
tion address. Laura Garland Carr read an origi- 
nal poem. Shoi't addresses were made by J. G. 
Sinclair, Lewis W. Clark, J. Horace Kent, J. P. 
Newell, and Charles S. George. This, with a 
supper such as that famous hotel can provide, 
made the occasion a most enjoyable one. 

The resident sons of Barnstead returned home 
feeling that some day the wanderers from the old 
town should be invited home to the old domain, 
and here, amid the scenes of childhood, hold a 
grand family reunion. 

The subject was talked of from time to time, 
but, from various causes, no decided action was 
taken until, at the annual town meeting in March, 
1882, it was voted to hold a reunion the coming 
autumji. 

Subsequently the following officers were chosen : 

PRESIDENT. 

Charles S. George. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

John Walker, 
John Pendergast, 
Joseph Jenkins, 
Caleb Willey, 
John B. Garland, 
John L. Nutter, 
Seth Shackford. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 
RECORDING SECRETARY. 

John H. Jenkins. 

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 

Horace N. Colbath. 

TREASURER. 

John Franklin Garland. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

John Waldo, 
Thomas L. Hoitt, 
Ira L. Berry, 
Horatio G. Willey, 
Horace Walker. 

TOWN COMMITTEE. 

George A. Hall, 
Albion P. Nutter, 
Thomas K. Proctor, 
Smith W. Locke, 
Seth Shackford, 
E. Frank Jones. 
Lewis Clark, 
Albert F. Shackford, 
Charles F. Emerson, 
Daniel E. Tuttle, 
Hiram Rand, 
Frank S. Jenkins, 
John Pendergast, 
Jacob W. Evans. 

AUXILIARY COMMITTEE. 

E. S. Nutter, Concord, N. H. ; 
J. L. Pickering, Concord, N. H. ; 
H. A. Tuttle, Pittsfield, N. H. ; 
J. P. Newell, Manchester, N. H. ; 
C. M. Murphy, Dover, N. H. ; 



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J. Horace Kent, Portsmouth, N. H. ; 
George S. Pendergast, Boston, Mass. ; 
Jos. R. Hayes, Lowell, Mass. ; 
Geo. F. Knowles, Lynn, Mass. 

CHAPLAIN. 

Rev. William 0. Carr. 

MARSHAL. 

Timothy Emerson. 

ASSISTANT MARSHALS. 

Frank 0. George, 
Henry 0. Huntress, 
John Rand. 

SUPERINTENDENT OF HALLS, TENTS, AND GROUNDS. 

Dr. George W. Emerson. 

COMMITTEE TO PREPARE SENTIMENTS. 

Horace N. Colbath. 
Charles S. George. 

COMMITTEE TO ARRANGE PROGRAMME. 

Dr. George W. Emerson, 
Horace N. Colbath, 
Frank S. Jenkins, 
Thomas L. Hoitt. 

COMMITTEE ON MUSIC. 

Charles E. Walker, 
Thomas L. Hoitt. 

COMMISSARY. 

Frank's. Jenkins. 

QUARTERMASTER. 

John Waldo. 

TOAST-MASTER. 

Rev. John George. 



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Thus organized, the work of preparation began. 
Meetings of committees and sub-committees fol- 
lowed in rapid succession, until a week before tlie 
day of I'eunion, when oflicei'S, committees and cit- 
izens, uniting, made it their special business. 

The arrangements as linally made were as fol- 
lows : 

The Reunion to be held on Wednesday, August 
30, 1882, at 10 o'clock a. m. 

The President to make the Welcoming- Address. 

Rev. A. H. Quint, d. d., to deliver an Oration. 

Laura Cxarland Carr to read a Poem. 

Dinner, free to all, in the Tent. 

Speeches, Sentiments, and Responses at the 
Stand. 

Music through the day by the Barnstead Brass 
Band. The oldest band in the United States; or- 
ganized Feb. 22, 1837. 

A tent, 78x160 feet, was placed on the grounds 
of Seth Shackfoi'd, Esq., adjoining the Town Hall 
and Congregational Church, and both these build- 
ings were opened to the public. The Speaker's 
Stand was placed between the Hall and Church; 
fronting it was the Band Stand. 

Under the direction of the Superintendent, Di*. 
Emerson, the tent was beautifully decorated with 
flags, bunting, etc., and tables wei-e arranged in 
the tent to seat 1,050 persons at one sitting. 

Such were the measures adopted to welcome 
home those whose hearts had been throbbing at 
the thoughts of the reunion. 



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In every part of the town little plans had been 
laid to bring families and friends together. It was 
to be the gathering of a great family. 

The number in attendance was estimated to be 
five thousand, over half that numbei' having par- 
taken of the dinner. 

The best order prevailed. It was a meeting of 
well-dressed, orderly, and respectable men and 
women, whom any town might be proud to own 
as* her children. 

Owing to the prevailing heat and dust, some 
things were omitted in the reception, and others 
might have been changed for the better. Yet on 
the whole, we can say, what every visitor did sa^', 
" well done, old Barnstead." 

We will now conduct the reader through the 
various services of the occasion. TJie Reitnion 
itself cannot he loritten or described. 



PROGRAMME. 



BARNSTEAD REUNION, AUGUST 30, 1882. 



At 10 o'clock A. M. — Meeting of emigrant sons 
and daughtei's, former residents, and present resi- 
dents, on the grounds. 

Music by the Barnstead Brass Band. 

At 11 o'clock A. M. — Exercises to commence at 
the Stand: 

1st. The Chairman of the Executive Committee 
to call the assemblage to order, state the order of 
exercises, and introduce the President of the day. 

2d. Prayer by the Chaplain. 

3d. Music by the Band. 

4th. Address of Welcome by the President. 

5th. Oration. 

6th. Poem. 

7th. Dinner, at 2 o'clock p. m., in the Tent. 

8th. Sentiments, Responses, and Reading Let- 
ters at the Stand. 



List of Sentiments. 



1. Old Barnstead — A good town to go from — 
a better one to return to. 

2. A kind remembrance to the sons and daugh- 
ters of old Barnstead providentially detained from 
our Reunion. 

3. Old Barnstead — Her fair fame a sure pass- 
port foi' her sons wherever they go, her prineii3les 
a guarantee of success. 

4. The adopted sons of Barnstead — They have 
honored her name, and she rejoices in their suc- 
cess. 

5. The emigrant sons and daughters of Barn- 
stead — Wherever may be their abiding place, or 
whatever their duties, let them never forget that 
they cannot be delinquent without being degen- 
erate. 

6. The town of Barnstead — She loves her hills 
and beautiful valleys, but feeling the sentiment 
and borrowing the language of the Roman mother, 
she points to her children, and exclaims, " These 
are my jewels." 

7. The annual crop produced in Barnstead — 
judges, clergymen, physicians, merchants, me- 
chanics and farmers — may the crop increase until 



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she has enough for home consumption and a lai'ge 
surplus for exportation. 

8. The friends and scenes of our chiklhood. 

9. The soldier sons of Barnstead — The fathers 
in the Revolution, the sons in 1812, the grandsons 
in the Kebellion — the love of liberty constrained 
them. 

10. The birthplace of our lathers — Portsmouth 
and ^ewington — names as familiar as household 
words to every child of Barnstead — may peace and 
prosperity be in their borders. 

11. The host of men Avhose lives have been 
made better and happier by choosing for wives, 
daughters of old Barnstead. 

12. The social history and reminiscences of old 
Barnstead. 

13. The resident sons and daughters of Barn- 
stead — May they preserve unsullied its ancient 
reputation, keep sacred the memory of the fathers, 
and be always ready to welcome its wandering- 
children to the old domain. 



RECEPTION 



Mr. Waldo, Chairman of the Executive Com- 
mittee, at 11 o'clock, called the vast concourse of 
people to order, and announced the President of 
the day, Charles S. Greorge, Esq. 

The President introduced Kev. Wni. O. Can-, 
the Chaplain, who led in prayer — invoking the 
blessing of their fathers' God to rest upon the 
children gathered here in their childhood home, 
and upon the wanderers whose hearts to-day were 
yearning and Avhose faces like Hebrew captives 
were turning toward the home of their fathers. 

The following address, welcoming our sons 
and daughters will win the hearty applause of 
every child of Barnstead. Mr. George is the son 
of Rev. Enos George, the first settled minister of 
Barnstead, who was in his day an eloquent orator, 
and we believe the verdict of those who listened 
to this address was — the mantle of the father has 
fallen on the son. 

Mr. George spoke without notes, substantially as 
follows : 
Ladies and Gentlemen: 

It is customary on occasions like this for the President, 
on assuming the chair, to thank the Committee of Arrange- 
ments for the high honor conferred on him. This on my 
part would seem to be rather premature. 



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Should I succeed iu the pcrformauce of my duty, it will 
tiien be time to return my thanks to the Committee. 

But failing, then shall I wish the mantle had fallen on 
some other man. I have not accepted- this position with- 
out some misgivings — a plain farmer as I am — and more 
especially to-day, as I look upon this vast audience, and 
reflect for a moment upon the intelligence and criticising 
ability of those who compose it. 

And yet 1 am somewhat relieved of this embarrassment, 
when I reflect for a moment that you know and I know 
and everybody knows that there is one prominent charac- 
teristic of the people of Barnstead, that whenever and 
wherever called upon to perform a duty, whether man or 
woman, whether in war or peace, they make the effort 
whether successful or not. 

And now, as I am a Barnstead man, from the crown of 
my head to the sole of my foot, I shall make the effort. 

And right here, let me say, you are expecting a speech of 
welcome, all full of " welcome." 

This would be the sheerest nonsense. You know Barn- 
stead — you know her people, hence you knoiu you are wel- 
come. Rather, let us talk of this good old town. Let us 
go back more than a hundred years : let us stand on Blue 
Hills, there can we see a company of brave, strong pioneers, 
resting on their v^^eary journey ; they are now in sight of 
the promised land. Thirty-six square miles of wilderness 
lie before them, encircled on every side by mountains and 
hills, with its giant pines and oaks towering far above all 
the rest of the forest. 

Magnificent sight ! Truly it held out no allurement to 
the lazy, the indolent, the shiftless ; and yet how alluring 
to the strong, the brave, the energetic. They have come 
from the sea, from the vicinity of Portsmouth, with all 
that health and vigor that " old ocean " ever gives the 
dwellers on her chores. 



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How well with the eye they measure the distance from 
their prospective home and old Portsmouth — the journey 
of a day. They look back once more on Portsmouth, in 
their minds the loveliest spot on earth, possessing the 
beauty of which she never could be robbed, as Nature held 
it in her grasp. 

They move on ; they enter this wilderness, the foliage of 
whose trees was so deep and so dark that scarce one ray of 
light could penetrate, and here they wander from hill to 
hill, from valley to valley, seeking a spot whereon to build 
them a home. 

Others come, of the same mould of character. The town is 
surveyed, laid off into lots, but no incorporation until the 
requirements of the British Crown are complied with — a 
church must be built and the gospel must be preached. 
And, by the strength of sinewy arms, logs are reared and 
locked together, the walls are completed, while bark laid 
from perline to perline — the roof is finished ; the inside 
probably equally rude. 

A committee wait upon the Rev. Dr. Adams, of Newing- 
ton, N. H., to preach the dedication sermon. On horse- 
back he comes, — dismounts, — enters this church, — then 
and there this good old man lifts up his voice in the wil- 
derness, and with his audience standing, dedicates this 
rude church to the Triune God. 

And where stood the church ? Go witli me, if you 
please, to Clarktown. Let us turn to the left, around 
Mr. Hanson's store. Now we travel by Levi Clark's — 
down the hill — cross the river — a few rods farther and stop, 
look to the right, over the wall, and there amid those scat- 
tered boulders stood the first church in Barnstead. Truly, 
that is hallowed ground ! and ere that spot is lost to all 
recognition, let a monument of lasting granite be erected 
to tell future generations whereon stood Barnstead's first 
sacred edifice, within whose walls, rude though they were, 
the gospel in its purity was preached, while our fathers 



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and our mothers chanted the Song's of David with all the 
devotion and sincerity of angels. It is said that our an- 
cestors were a peculiar people, and why not ? Their lot 
liad been cast in the only New England in the world — in 
the only New Hampsliire, and in the only Barnstead then 
and to-day in all this broad land. 

They were proverbial for their shrewdness. The words, 
"Fools settled in Barnstead," never escaped the lips of 
man. Sliould they ever, methinks his head would drop 
upon liis breast never more to rise in the heaviness of his 
guilt. 

If they did not all possess those literary attainments 
so essential to tlie well-being and retinement of society — 
if they could not correctly classify all the wild flowers of 
the forest, they did possess a judgment and mathematical 
ability sufficient to tell how many feet in that old-growth 
pine or in that " brave old oak." 

And to ol^tain such choice lumber for building material, 
many no doubt were induced to settle here, and year after year 
this lumber was taken off and transported to Portsmouth, 
and to-day constitutes the frame and finish of many an old 
mansion peculiar to that beautiful city. I never walk the 
streets of Portsmouth, resting my eye on those ancient 
mansions, without linking them with the early history of 
Barnstead and with the hardy yeomanry of a generation 
long since gone. 

I never look upon her shipping without realizing the fact 
that many a shi}) of Barnstead oak and pine has floated^ 
down her harbor, and with sails all spread, out upon the 
" wide waste of waters," riding triumphant and buoyant 
as the swan in its element. 

I have intimated that the early settlers were not an edu- 
cated class of people. This does not imply that no im- 
provement in mental culture followed. 

Barnstead has probably sent out and is still sending out 
more teachers than anv other town of the same number of 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 19 

inhabitants in the state. At one time no less than four 
male teachers were engaged in Portsmouth, from high 
school down, and to-day, while we furnish Dover a mayor, 
we furnish the state with one sixth of her associate 
judges and one fifth of her high sheriffs ; while its lawyers 
and doctors are scattered all over the country, from Maine 
to Georgia and from New Hampshire to California. 

And, to-day, Barnstead is represented in twenty-eight 
states and territories and two foreign countries ; and yet 
as I look out upon this audience, I am reminded that Barn- 
stead's sons and daughters are not all gone. I see before 
me sons and daughters of old Barnstead who carry in their 
veins the blood of old John Aiams, the foremost in the 
forum in the " days that tried men's souls." 

I see before me sons and daughters who carry in their 
veins the blood of old John Stark, tlie hero of Bennington. 

Others I see who carry in their veins the blood of one 
who with a little company under the guidance of old John 
Sullivan, one dark night, went silently down the Piscata- 
qua river, broke into the fort held by British soldiers, stole 
the British magazine, returned with it to Durham, and 
afterwards sent it to Massachusetts, where it was used 
upon the heights of Bunker Hill. I venture to say no 
more daring deed was performed in the Revolutionary war, 
from its incipient stages to the clearing up of the smoke 
that hung over the city of Yorktown. 

Our ancestors were fond of fun, of anecdotes, and of 
long drawn stories ; of tracing their ancestors way back to 
France, to Scotland, to Ireland, England and Wales. 

How interesting to-day would be those stories — with 
what eagerness we would listen to those genealogies, so 
correctly, so truthfully told. 

Why ! my friends, I would give more to-day for a col- 
lection of those old stories and those genealogies than I 
would for a collection of the choicest literature that ever 
flowed from the pen of man 5 but they are well nigh lost 



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and forgotten, and the lips that uttered them are scaled, 
and sealed forever. 

The people of Barnstead were strongly attached to eacli 
other — strongly attached to their native soil — and it is this 
element, transmitted down to the present generation, that 
has brought you here to-day, my stranger friends. And 
now let me make a short talk to you, and I am done. 

To say we are glad to see you, is but a faint expression 
of our feelings. To shake you by the hand, to recall the 
scenes of earlier days, gives us a pleasure that vibrates on 
every artery and permeates every pore of the body. 

To know you have left your homes hundreds, nay, thou- 
sands of miles behind, to answer to the summons for this 
gathering, (ills us with profoundest gratitude ; while it binds 
us together with a tie of ten fold tenacity. You are here 
from your New England homes, from the far West, from 
the orange groves of the South, from the British domin- 
ions, and from the Spanish realms. 

And to you, sir,* and yours, who have left your northern 
home to be with us to-day, permit me to say, that as a 
home subject to a crown worn by one of the loveliest women 
the world has ever produced — for more than forty-five 
years has she sat upon England's throne without a blem- 
ish to mar the purity of her character — sir, for the peace 
of England and England's dominions, long live Victoria.] 

And to you, sir,f and yours, who have crossed the ocean 
to visit once more the home of earlier days, I will say that 
we do not forget that it was by the generosity and enter- 
prise of a Ferdinand and Isabella that this great and grow- 
ing continent was given to the world, well nigh four hun- 
dred years ago. Sir, may your adojited country ere long 
return to its former greatness and power, and her people 
be tempered with the virtues of Alphonzo and his queen. 

*.Tohn D. Xutter, Montreal, Ca. 

t Dr. Albert Warren, ISIadrid, Spain. 



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To you, sir, and jours, I extend a double welcome, while I 
wish you, your wife, and little one, a pleasant and safe re- 
turn to your adopted Spain. 

My friends, some of you went forth into the world in 
childhood ; some in maturer years ; but the most of you 
went foi'th in that happy period of life when the world 
looked bright — no clouds intervening between you and 
prosperity and happiness. It was 

" In life's morning inarcli," 

ere the bright, unclouded future had told you the story of 
its storms and its cares ! And for your success many a 
prayer was whispered by the parents and friends you left 
behind. That you have been successful wherever you have 
wandered or in whatever part of the country or the world 
you have made your home, is the sincere and ardent hope 
of those whom you meet here today. » 

And now, proud of my position, I stand here, and in be- 
half of the people of our good old town, greet you all 
with a welcome in which there is no dissembling, and with 
a friendship as pure as ever warmed the human heart. We 
have letters from absent friends, which the Secretary will 
read to you. And is this all of the reunion ? — your pres- 
ence and these letters from absent friends ? Is there no 
mysterious connection between the living and the dead ? 
Are those "who have gone on before" unconscious of the 
transactions of this day ? Must we believe that they are 
asleep to all tlie concerns and cares of the living ? Ah ! 
that sleep means oblivion ! Rather let us believe that back 
from the moment of our creation, onward through the eternal 
future, there is not one moment lost, not one single link 
disconnected or broken, in all that endless chain of the 
soul's immortality. They are here to-day reaching forth 
the hand in sympathy and friendship from the shadow that 
veils them from our view ! 
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It is this fact that makes this reunion complete. We 
are all liere to-day, either mentally, in person, or in sym- 
pathy, from the North and from the Sonth, from the East 
and from the West, and from — beyond the river I 



A POEM. 

Written for the Barnstead Rennion, August 30, 1882, 

BY LAURA GARLAND CARR. 

Kead by Miss Sophia George. 

[Laura Garland Carr, the daughter of William 
and Mary Jane (Hall) Garland, was born in 
liarnstead, June 27, 1835, Avhere her childhood 
was passed. Her father died in her infancy. Her 
grandf\ither, Isaac Garland, was an early settler 
in Barnstead, and reared a large family of sons 
and daughters, who in early life were all teachers 
of the schools in Barnstead and elswhere. He 
was fond of reading, especially poetry, and some- 
times wrote verses. He died in 1867, aged ninety- 
two years, A son, John B. Garland, Esq., owns 
and occupies the old homestead, to which Mrs. 
Carr so feelingly refers in some of her poems. 
Became the wife of K. G. Carr, Esq., of Concord, 
N. H., Sept. 27, 18(34, where she now resides. 
Her friends hope some day to see the many 
poetic gems from her pen gathered together and 
published in a style befitting their worth. 

— Editor.] 



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OLD BARNSTEAD. 

We talk of buried cities found beueatli Italian skies, 

"Where homes and streets, hidden for years, from out their ashes rise ; 

The i^leasant thrills that move us, as their relics gather fast, 

Tell of a strong, magnetic link binding us to the past. 

We need not cross the ocean, friends, nor wander up nor down — 
We, who have come to middle life — to find a buried town. 
The world is full of them, to-day ; not quite so famed, we know. 
Nor covei'ed by Vesuvian fires, so many years ago. 

'Tis but the dust that Fatlier Time lets fall in his swift flight — 
A golden dust — yet holding close its visions from our sight : 
The playgrounds of our childhood ! Oh, the homes of earliest days ! 
We never more may find them, once we leave their mystic ways. 

We visit scenes we call the same, and some old trails we find ; 
But there's a marked change over all, that cannot be defined. 
It gathers deeper, year by year*, till each return gives pain. 
And memory alone can give the old haunts back again. 

And so there's much of sadness in our gathering to-day; — - 
For us who went out gay and young, and come back staid and gvay'; — 
And, while this modern Barnstead has its own fair claims, in sooth, 
Forgive us if we cherish best the old town of our youth. 

Old Barnstead ! Ah, how vast it was !. It almost filled the world ! 
Not quite, — for wasn't Tuttle's stage, in all its grandeur, whirled, 
Once every week, straight through town and off beyond the hills. 
Where Dover lay, — a strip of land, with a few noisy mills ? 

That stage ! No palace car we've seen was half so rich and gay ! 
It had red curtains, you could see more than a mile away. 
And, when close by Lock's Corner school, at Nutter's store, it paused. 
What a wild stir of wonderment in our young breasts it caused ! 

We turned, and stretched our necks, to peer through windows small 

and high, 
To catch each crimson flutter in the dust clouds rolling by. 
And then the school droned slowly on, while fat old bumble-bees 
Looked in on us with husky boom, then whisked off toward the trees. 

We followed them mth longing eyes, and thought how cool and dense 
The shadows lay upon the grass, beyond the pasture fence ; 
And wondered if the worm we saw at recess, on the ledge, 
Had finished up his jerky job of inching off its edge. • 



24 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

We lieard a chipimmk scold and fret, and knew the very stump 
AVhere he was sitting, tail erect, the frisky, saucy hump ! 
An August-bug, with long-drawn whir-r, went slowly sailing by, 
And happy swallows skimmed and wheeled between us and the sky. 

• 

And then our eyes went slowly o'er the objects in the room : 
The pile of hemlock, by the door, already for a broom ; 
The oak-leaf festoons on the wall ; the long seats, row by row ; 
The water-pail, on the front bench, with dusty pools below ; 

The battered old tin dipper, with its rusty base and brim ; — 
And here we made a pilgrimage in sudden thirsty whim. 
Then o'er the teacher's desk we looked, with eager, searching face, 
Hoping, amid the knots and stains, a new scene we might trace. 

The rusty old box-stove was gay with fragrant tufts of fern, 
And all the rambling funnel, in its every crook and turn, 
Was misty with asparagus, where flies in busy glee 
Swung up and down, so free and glad, it made us wild to see. 

Oh, how the time dragged ! Are these months so long as first school days? 

They are the darkest points I see, way back there in the haze. 

Ah, now, when every passing hour is full to overflow, 

The thinking on those taskless times is the best rest we know ! 

No freed, wild creature from the wood ere sped to its abode 
More gladly than we bounded home through that long, winding road, 
With dinner-pails that swung and flashed at every joyous turn, 
And gleaning lessons all the way that were not hard to learn. 

Our father's fifty aci'e farm ! How full of nooks t'was stored ! 

Oh ! it seemed larger than this town, with regions unexplored. 

We never saw such bees and birds as joined us at our play, 

Nor fields so full of sweet wild flowers. You call them weeds to-day. 

No modern mower er'e was seen through those fair fields to pass. 
Scaring the merry bobolinks from homes deep in the grass ; 
Nor one of all the clanking things that these new farms infest 
Went clattering across those vales, like demons of unrest. 

A slender pathway, like a thread, now hidden, and now seen, 
Ran through the line of rustling corn and off across the green. 
With mazy curves and wayside charms our young feet to beguile, 
Till, at the wall, another path met it beyond the stile. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 25 

What pleasant people came and went through those remembered ways ! 
There was no dearth of uncles, aunts, or cousins, in those days. 
And oh, the dear old grand-parents, with hearts so warm and true ! 
So mindful of each childish want in all our noisy crew ! 

In that old town all things were bright within its ample lines. 
No bugs were on the roses then, no blight upon the vines. 
And didn't berries ripen sweet through nine months of the year? 
Then, oh, the jolly harvest time, with all its added cheer ! 

There was no empty houses then, beside the roads to rise, 
Mocking us with the ghostliness of their dull, vacant eyes ; 
Nor were there strange new faces glancing from familiar nooks. 
Without a hint of love for us in their cold, curious looks. 

There were no grave-yards in that town of which we were aware, 
Only a few old, mossy graves that always had been there. 
With quaint, dark stones telling us when the sleepers went away. 
Not one of these cold marble slabs that chill our hearts to-day. 

Barnstead ! Her fields are rich and green, her meadows fair to see ; 
Her pasture lands are dotted o'er with cattle, roving free ; 
Her forests spread their shadows broad in many a sylvan place ; 
Her hills trail low against the sky in curving lines of grace. 

On her fair ponds the lilies lie in all their wealth of bloom. 
While from their banks rings out the clear, wild laughter of the loon ; 
Her streamlets glide down grassy slopes with merry song and flash ; 
Her waterfalls leap from her heights with frantic plunge and dash. 

And though her sons and daughters roam through all the big, round 

earth, 
A goodly company still fills the home that gave them birth. 
And younger ones are coming up to join the thinning band. 
While peace and plenty, side by side, make glad the pleasant land. 

Then here's cheer for Barnstead town, just as she stands to-day ; 
And here's one for her girls and boys, who've never strayed away ; 
Another for the distant ones, who hold her memory dear ; 
And one more for the wanderers, who've once more gathered here. 

But when I speak of that old town that has so long been dead, 
I feel like standing silently, with bowed, uncovered head. 



26 THE RARNSTEAD REUNION. 

Notp:. It is with sincere regret that tlie Editor reports his inabil- 
ity to procnre a cojn' of the Oration of Dr. (^iiint for pultlicatiou. 
Several letters were written him, requesting- a copy, hut they failed 
to elicit any response, and reluctantly the book is sent to the printer 
without it. ['''^D.] 



THE DINNER. 



Oil adjourning', at 2 o'clock p. m., from the Stand 
at which the morning exorcises had been held, the 
company moved to the Dining- Tent, where tables 
were loaded with substantial food and varied del- 
icacies, j)repared by Barnstead's fair daughters for 
the guests to the family gathering. 

After dinner a short time was spent in social 
greetings and renewing old acquaintances and 
friendships, when the thrilling notes of the Band 
again called them to the Stand. 

The President called them to order and intro- 
duced Dr. H. C. Canney, of Manchester, who 
read the following Poem: 

BARN STEAD. 

[Written for and read at the Reunion held at Barnstead, N. H., 
August 30, 188-2.] 

BY DR. H. C. CANNEY. 

Old Barnstead ! grand and noble town, 
The fairest gem in a nation's crown, 
With thy broad fields, thy hills and waters, 
Thy noble sons and peerless daughters. 

Thy daughters fair, wherever found. 
With memories sweet thy name surround ; 
Thy absent sons, where'er they roam, 
Still think of thee, old town, as home. 



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Xo skies so fair have they e'er seen, 
No birds so gay, no fields so green, 
Xo other waters e'er so bright, 
As sparkled to their youthful sight. 

Tlien life seemed bright as morning's dew. 
And earth seemed good and pure and true. 
O, that those dreams were dreams of truth, — 
Those of our free and buoyant youth . 

But 'mid this day of festal gladness 
We will remember, not in sadness. 
How far from childhood's faith we turned. 
As we life's bitter lessons learned. 

Again we view each treasured nook, 
liy rocky height or babbling brook, 
And they bring back with magic power, 
Remembrance of youth's fleeting hour. 

It only seems the other day. 
We frolicked there in childhood's play. 
And we forget the flight of years, 
Life's struggles, triumphs, joys and tears. 

As here we meet 'mid scenes of yore, 
And friend greets friend with joy ouce more; 
We join the sport, and not in vain, 
We dream that we are young again. 

Though passing time has left its traces 
Upon the old, familiar faces ; 
And many to-day we miss among 
Those dear to us when life was young. 

Old Barnstead, 'round our natal shrine. 
The strongest tendrils always twine, 
'Round early friends and playmates dear, 
Now in reunion gathered here. 

'1 hen let joy's merry tones ring out, 
Ring far and wide in gladsome shout, 
Till vale and hill shall give reply 
In echoes sounding to the sky ! 



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Long may the old town guard with care 
That honored station now its share ; 
And may its truant chihh'en all 
Return at each reunion's call, 

To pass at least one happy day 
With tliose at home, who wisely stay. 
To ever keep thy growing fame, — 
With them 'tis safe — thy honored name. 

From heaven to earth no bliss descends 
More pure than greeting childhood's friends; 
And may we hope reunions here 
Will mark with joy each passing year. 

For they will ever truly be 
Like islands green in life's drear sea, 
And grown more dear as years shall glide 
Adown times ever ebbing tide. 

Yet 'mid our joys conies thought of pain, 
We may not all meet here again ; 
For one by one we journey 'lone 
Unto the land of the unknown. 

But through the years of coming time, 
As pilgrims in an eastern clime 
Gather at Mecca, their shrine so dear — 
So may our children gather here. 

When earth and time no more shall be, 
I hope and trust, old friends, that we 
Shall yet a grand reunion hold 
'Yond gates of pearl, in streets of gold. 

After the Poem, the Secretary read the follow- 
ing letters: 

LETTER OF REV. S. D. JEWETT, OF MIDDLETOWX, CONN. 

MiDDLETOWN, Ct., Aug. 23, 1882. 
Rev. Wm. 0. Carr,— 

Dear Sir: I have received the invitation of the Ex. 
Committee to attend the Reunion at Barnstead Aug. 30. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 29 

Your letter of the 17th came with the request that I lead 
in the opening prayer. Could I be present I would stand 
in my lot, and do what I might to add to the interest of 
the occasion. But I must decline to accept your kind invi- 
tation. I excuse myself on the score of distance, home 
duties and age. 

The first settlers of Barn stead are well remembered by 
me. Although I have not lately visited my native place 
bodily, yet I am often there in spirit. Among the dead 
and living are my kindred. I can now see distinctly the 
form and face of Esquire Charles Hodgdon, Leftenant Ben- 
jamin Nutter, Uncle Lord, Uncle Joseph and Deborah 
Bunker, Deacon Ebenezer Nutter and his wife, riding six 
miles on horseback to meeting. 

I have the History of Barnstead and read it with great 
pleasure, and if it has some irrelevant matter and a super- 
abundance of poetry, it is what was wanted — a correct his- 
tory of Barnstead. It need not be said that the pioneers 
of Barnstead were almost a unit in politics. At one time 
there were but two Federal votes found in the ballot-box — 
one of these was thrown out by my father, the other by 
Uncle Locke of the north part of the town. Your venera- 
ble predecessor. Rev. Enos George, was earnest and effi- 
cient to perpetuate the same ratio. 

If Barnstead has not increased in population as some 
towns have, it is because so many of her sons have emi- 
grated. 

I am surprised to see the catalogue of professional and 
educated men that Barnstead has sent out. What town of 
equal population can compare with it in this respect ? I 
have many pleasant memories of Barnstead Parade. I am 
now over eighty years old, and have some of the peevish- 
ness of old age ; but when I remember the follies and mis- 
chief of early days, my fault-finding is suppressed and I 
am charitable. 



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God bless old Barnstead ! He brought a strong and 
vigorous colony there, led by a pious servant of his own 
choice. He has sustained them since, and now permits 
them to sit in peace and plenty under their own vine and 
fig tree. This Reunion should be full of gratitude to God, 
and full of faith in him for the future. 

Let it close with every voice in a grand chorus, 

" Praise God from whom all blessings flow." 

From your aged townsman, 

S. D. JEWETT. 



LETTER OF J. C SCRIGGINS, ESQ. 

Storm Lake, Iowa, Aug 11, 1882. 
Horace N. Colbath, Esq., — 

Dear Sir : I received your kind in\atation to attend the 
Reunion of the Sons and Daughters of Barnstead, Aug. 30th. 

I should be happy to come and see long remembered 
faces and take one more look over the hills and valleys of 
my native town, the home of my boyhood, before I go to 
that " bourne from which no traveller returns." 

But it is impossible. I am all alone, and have cows, 
horses, and swine to care for and look after as well as 
farm crops to gather. 

I cannot write you my feelings, as I am not used to 
much writing, but I enclose some verses that I found in a 
paper, that in many respects truly expresses my own ex- 
perience : 

In the home of my childhood, where tall poplars grew, 
AVas a huge kitchen fire-place homely to view, 
With its old-fashioned crane and its trammels of wire, 
That swung the " cook-pot " o'er the old kitchen fire. 

Back-logs were, in winter, piled up to the flue. 

With fore-sticks of hick'ry, or maple in lieu; 

Whence bright cheerful flames would leap higher and higher, 

Till all was aglow 'round the old kitchen fire. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION, 31 

Tn autumn the bacon and shoulders and hams 
Were hung up to cure in those ample old jambs, 
And all the home comforts that heart could desire, 
Were plenty and free 'round that old kitchen fire. 

When the chores were all done, and the back-log in place 
We drew round the table, and bowing for " grace," 
All joined in thanksgiving, pronounced by the sire, 
For blessings surrounding our old kitchen fire. 

Oft-times was that kitchen the neighbors' resort 
For social enjoyment or juvenile sport. 
And children would cluster around our grandsire 
To hear his war-tales by the old kitchen fire. 

The purest enjoyments I ever have known 
Were those when I mingled at home with my own — 
With parents and children, and household entire, 
Assembled around the dear old kitchen fire. 

One soul was as gentle and sweet as the dove — 
The bond of our circle, its centre of love. 
Whose hands though oft weary, seem never to tire 
Of labors of love 'round the old kitchen fire. 

As the mother-bird guardeth the nest of her brood. 
Thus watchful was she for our safety and good ; 
And often she toiled, after all would retire, 
Our garments to mend by the old kitchen fire. 

In search of enjoyment I've roved the world round, 
'^loiig' the grave and the festive, and yet I've not found 
In all life's allurements one charm to admire 
Like the home scenes of yore 'round the old kitchen fire. 

Thanking you for your kind invitation, 1 am 
Your ob't servant, 

JOSHUA C. SCRIGGINS. 



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LETTER OF WILLIAM G. DREW. 

QuiNCY, Plumas Co., California, 

August 13, 1882. 
Horace N. Colbath, — 

Dear Sir : I hereby acknowledge the receipt of your 
kind invitation to be present at the Barnstead Reunion, 
with sincere regrets that I cannot be there. 

Yet I would say to the sons and daughters of Barnstead, 
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Greeting from one who holds 
in most affectionate remembrance the home of his child- 
hood — old Barnstead, in Yankee land. 

You may be sure, my friends, I am with you in spirit 
although materially I am three thousand miles away. 

When I first came to California, I was introduced to a 
gentleman, a native of New Hampshire, who asked from 
what part of the state I came. Witli pride I answered from 
Barnstead. "A good place to come from," said he, em- 
phatically. 

But I, for one, think it is a good place to live in, and a 
good place to return to ; and truly I hope when you have 
another Reunion I may be there in person. 

Wishing you all much pleasure at your Reunion, 
I am, with respect, yours, &c., 

WM. GARLAND DREW. 



1st Sentiment: 

Old Barnstead — A good town to go from — a 
better one to return to. 

Responded to by Hon. H. A. Tuttle, as follows : 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

Thirty years ago to-day I left the old shoe shop, opposite 
Shackford's Hotel, and went out into the world to seek my 
fortune. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION, 66 

I went with the kind wishes of the people ringing in my 
cars, and with the thought that after all Barnstead was a 
pretty good place from which to go. 

Somehow I never could make up my mind to settle in 
the rich regions of the West as have many emigrants from 
Barnstead. 

I still clung to the old Granite State, and finally adopted 
the neighboring town of Pittsfield as my home. I went 
into business there and soon found, by the liberal patronage 
and cheering words of her people, how Barnstead would 
stand by her sons. 

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Barnstead is a good town to 
go from — you are never forgotten. The people rejoice with 
you in your prosperity, and weep with you in your ad- 
versity. 

What a hearty welcome they give you when you return ! 
and how proud you are that Barnstead is your native town. 

Barnstead ! The birthplace of such men as the orator 
of the day, the learned Quint of Dover, Judge Clark of 
Manchester, the " Barnstead Boy," Hon. John G. Sinclair, 
Hon. J. P. Newell, Col. Murphy the present Mayor of Do- 
ver, Col. Edgerly of Manchester, and a host of others who 
are present here to-day. 

But who have always wished us God-speed in every good 
purpose ? Who have given us the heartiest welcome to- 
day ? Who have entertained us pleasantly ? Who have 
supplied the wants of the inner man ? Without whom 
would this Reunion have been an utter failure ? The sons 
of Barnstead ? No ! The daughters of Barnstead ! May 
they live long and prosper. 

Sir : We have found out to-day that Barnstead is even 
a better place to return to, than to go from. Let us return 
oftener ! Let the old ties of kinship and of friendship be 
closer drawn about us, and may old Barnstead see our 
faces oftener in the future than she has in the past. 



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2d Sentiment: 

A kind remembrance to the Sons and Danghters 
of Barn.stead providentially detained from our 
Reunion. 

Re8i)onse by Col. E. S. Nutter, Concord, N. H., 
as follows: 

Mr. President: 

It would have j)Iea.sed me far better had it fallen to the 
lot of some more eloquent son of our good old town to 
respond to this toast. Yet I am sure that no one among 
them all, at home or abroad, clierishes a warmer love for 
old BarnstCad, or a stronger regard for all her sons and 
daughters, wherever they may be found. There is no 
more jjleasant occurrence in ordinary life than the family 
reunion, where all the absent sons and daughters come 
back to the home of their childhood and gather beneath 
the old roof-tree, as in the days of the past. Ours, to-day, 
is a reunion upon a larger scale. Many families are gath- 
ered here, all with a common interest, all responding to 
the call of a common mother — the town whose name we 
honor, and whose soil we love. While we live the memory 
of this occasion will be one of the brightest things of life. 
Yet there is no pleasure without alloy ; no joy without 
some tinge of sadness. As we have met old friends and 
renewed old friendships, we are sensibly reminded of the 
fact that there are tliose who were with us in other days, 
whose faces we have not seen and whose voices we have 
not heard to-day. Some of them — many, indeed — have 
passed beyond the reach of any mortal mother's call. Others 
may have received the summons, but have been unable to 
respond. Some are disabled by the infirmities of age — 
worn and wearied by long and faithful services in life's 
great fields of labor. Others are confined by business 
cares which cannot be laid aside, even for a brief interval. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 36 

Others, still, are separated from us by long distance, beyond 
their means to overcome, however strong their inclination 
and desire. There is no section of the state, no part of 
the country, where the sons and daughters of Barnstead 
are not to be found ; and Avherever they are, we may be 
sure they have done and are doing their duty well and 
faithfully. In every walk of life — in law and politics, in 
the ministry and in the school-room, in trade and manufac- 
ture, and in every line of industry, the representatives of 
our good old town are found in the front ranks. Some of 
the most successful of the number are here to-day. 

We rejoice in their presence, and gladly listen to their 
words of kindly cheer. 

But to the absent ones, whether known or unknown to 
worldly fame and honor, our thoughts turn at this time. 

They are our brothers and sisters — children of the dear 
old mother town — and wherever they are, scattered up and 
down the state, or all over the Union, or even beyond its 
l)orders as many are, we may be sure that their hearts are 
with us now, even as our hearts go out to them. Though 
absent in body they are present in spirit. They have not 
forgotten their native hills and valleys and the friends and 
associations of childhood and youth. They will cherish 
the memory of these as long and faithfully as the lessons 
of honesty, frugality, and patriotism, which they learned 
in their midst — and have followed through life. Though 
with us on this glad occasion in thought and wish alone, 
we cannot doubt that our absent friends await with deepest 
interest the report of our reunion, and all its exercises and 
details. 

They will hear of it hi their homes, they will read the 
story of its grand success with true and loyal pride ; but 
the half even can never be told or written. 

Only those who participated in person can have an real- 
izing sense of the pleasure and success of this day and 
occasion. So it is that we regret, as deeply as they can do, 



36 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

that SO many of our friends have been unable to gather 
with us to da}^ — that we do not enjoy their presence, and 
that tlic full measure of what we do enjoy cannot be shared 
with them. We can only send them fraternal greeting, 
and the assurance of affectionate regard. 

3d Sentiment: 

Old Barn>stead — Her fair fame a sure passport 
for her sons wherever they go ; her principles a 
guarantee of success. 

Col. M. B. Y. Edgerly, of Manchester, N". H., 
responded, briefly, as follows: 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

To-day the sons and daughters of Barnstead meet to 
celebrate their first reunion. 

Let us consider for a moment some of the characteris- 
tics of the old town and its children. 

There is a natural variety of men and women. Some 
are brave and intelligent, some timid and despondent ; and 
to understand why all are not equal, why one should be 
more especially fitted to their work than another, we should 
go back to their birthplace, to their first surroundings, and 
find out the peculiar characteristics of their birthplace — 
for in every country man is deeply rooted into the soil of 
nature. 

Generally the sons and daughters of Barnstead are push- 
ing, energetic, and trustworthy, and are striving to reach 
an honorable position in life ; and when they have reached 
the pinnacle of their ambition, they bring not only honor to 
themselves but to their native town, the birthplace where 
their principles were nurtured and sustained. 

The better and higher the principles, the more capable 
the people, and more richly endowed with honesty and in- 
tegrity. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 37 

Both the mental and physical structure of mankind de- 
pend more or less upon surroundings. 

The lovelier the landscape the more poetic the race ; 
and in such a town as old Barnstead, undulating with hill 
and vale, mankind contracts a temperament and a charac- 
ter corresponding to it. 

I am inclined to believe that whatever of fame and 
honor has been achieved by the sons and daughters of 
Barnstead they owe much to the inspiration born of the 
rugged hills of their native town. And I am glad to know 
that she has sent into the various walks of life her sons 
and daughters who have shed a brilliancy upon her name 
and exerted a healthful influence upon the affairs of the 
state, of which we may all be proud. 

With many thanks, Mr. President, for your flattering 
introduction and kind wishes, and with bright hopes for 
the future prosperity of old Barnstead, allow me to give 
place to others. 

4th Sentiment: 

The adopted sons of Barnstead — They have 
honored her name and she rejoices in their success. 

Hon. C. M. Murphy of Dover, ^. H., respond- 
ed, as follows: 

Mr President : 

I have no difficulty in admitting that a well-situated, 
thrifty, and attractive New England town, must owe a good 
deal to its adopted sons. One is not consulted about his 
birthplace, but his head and heart have to do with the 
choice of associates and surroundings. My recollections 
of Barnstead are exceedingly pleasant. Many changes 
have taken place in Yankee land since I was a long-legged 
boy in this town. Many of the old seaports are now well- 
nigh deserted ; regions that were then wholly agricultural, 
are now wholly manufacturing ; turnpikes then much 
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38 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

frequented, are now largely abandoned ; capital has 
changed quarters, and the future promises other and still 
more important departures. But to me, Barnstead still 
preserves its old-time certainty and invariability. The 
vicissitudes which have disturbed other places, seem not 
to have affected this. If my opinion is a correct one, and 
I entertain no doubt and fear no contradiction, there must 
be a good reason for such steadiness, integrity, and single- 
ness of purpose. Shall the reason bo sought for in its 
early history ? My friend, Dr. Quint, who lives a part of 
his time in the 17th century, and knows more about the 
early settlers of New Hampshire towns than most of us 
do of our childhood, can answer the question. Pictur- 
esque or ugly, we are bound to speak well of our birth- 
place, but it is a good test of one's liking for a locality, if 
coming to it as a stranger, and leaving it before maturity, he 
loves to revisit it, and continues thi-ough busy, engrossing 
years, to hold pleasing and hearty interest in its welfare. 
This test, Mr. President, I meet fully, and confidently be- 
lieve, that time, in this respect, can work no change in me. 

5th Sentimext: 

The emigrant sons and daughters of Barnstead 
— Wherever may be their a))iding place or what- 
ever their duties, let them never forget that they 
cannot be delinquent without being degenerate. 

Hon John P. ^N^ewell, of Manchester, ^N'. H., 
eloquently responded as follows: 

Mr. President., Ladies and Gentlemen.^ 

Fellow- Citizens of Barnstead : 

I am glad to be with you to-day, and to be pei'mitted to 
look once more into your honest faces and to feel once 
more the pressure of your friendly hands. I am glad that 
those of you who still abide in or near your ancestral homes 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 39 

have found it in your hearts to inaugurate and carry into suc- 
cessful execution this reunion of the sons and daughters 
of old Barnstead. The occasion revives old associations and 
brings back fondly to my memory the happy days of my 
boyhood, and all the cherished friendships of my early life. 

Though it is now many years since my father moved 
into an adjoining town, and made a home for himself and 
his family. Yet even to this day, whenever in my dreams 
I am in my father's house, it is always the dear old home 
on the Province road, in South Barnstead, where I was 
born. 

Every rod of my father's farm, and every spot in all the 
neighborhood, is to me hallowed ground ; and I adopt, as 
expressing my own feelings, the words of the poet : 

" How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, 
As fond recollection presents them to view : 
The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wild-wood, 
And every loved spot my infancy knew." 

A distinguished son of New Hampshire, who, in his 
young manhood, joined the tide of emigration towards the 
setting sun and made himself famous in a western state, is 
said once to have made the remark that New Hampshire 
was a good state to emigrate from, and many have sup- 
posed that Gen. Cass meant this in disparagement of his 
native state. But, no ; he intended to say, that the train- 
ing a young man gets in New Hampshire in matters of 
industry, enterprise, economy, and unwavering honesty, 
will ensure his success wherever he may go and whoever 
may be his competitors. And if the sons of Barnstead 
who have gone forth from your midst have achieved any- 
thing of success — and you have no occasion to blush for 
them to-day — it is because of the training they received in 
the dear old homes in Barnstead, and of the healthful 
influences that were about them during all the years of 
their childhood and youth ; and among those influences, 



40 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

wliose tendency was to form high and manly character, 
were the well kept public and select schools in town, and 
the honest life and worthy example of the fathers and 
mothers. But not the least among these influences that 
helped to form the character of the young, was the elevat- 
ing influence of that good man who was often a teacher 
in our public schools and who for more than fifty years 
was a minister of the gospel in this town. I refer, of 
course, Mr. President, to your honored father, the Rev. 
Enos George, of blessed memory. 

I see by the census reports that the po])ulation of Barn- 
stead is less than it was some years ago. In seeking for 
the causes of this diminished population, I desire to ask, 
Where now are those homes, that used to exist here, full 
of healthy and happy children ? Why, I remember four 
families that once lived over on the Province road in which 
there were fifty-four children, and the number in the sev- 
eral families increased in regular progression — twelve, 
thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen — fifty-four in all. 

I believe in the policy and the justice of giving pensions 
to those brave but disabled soldiers, who, during the late 
rebellion, endured hardships and imperiled life in defence 
of the American Union. But I think, Mr. President, it 
would be a no less wise and just thing to pension those 
mothers of a numerous offspring. 

Another reason for the depopulation of these country 
towns may be found in the fact that the boys who have 
been born and reared here, as soon as they grow to man- 
hood, and even before that time, leave their homes and 
their fathers' farms, and flock to the cities in quest of em- 
ployment. 

In this way, families are broken up, and the children are 
scattered far and wide, leaving father and mother in their 
enfeebled age to plod on, as best they may, until life's jour- 
ney is finished. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 41 

In many cases I believe this to be a grave mistake, if, 
indeed, it be not a crime. Let the homes, as far as this 
can be done, be made beautiful and attractive, well sup- 
supplied with choice books and daily or weekly papers and 
whatever else is calculated to embellish life and form 
manly character, and then let the boys remain at home, or 
in near neighborhood of home, a lielp to each other and be a 
comfort and solace to their fathers and mothers, to whom 
they are bound by every tie of nature and by every consid- 
eration of gratitude and love. 

And now, Mr. President, I will close with a heartfelt 
wish for continued prosperity and happiness to all the good 
people of old Barnstead. 

6th Sen^timent: 

The town of Barnstead — She loves her hills and 
beautiful valleys, but feeling the sentiment and 
borrowing the language of the Konian mother, 
she points to her children, and exclaims, " These 
are mj jewels." 

Rev. Frank H. Lyford was called upon to re- 
spond to this sentiment. Having taken the stand, 
he said : 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

Worthy sons and daughters of noble sires : Jewels of 
old Barnstead : Happy am I to greet you on this occasion : 
An occasion alike honorable to yourselves and those who 
have gone before you. 

Why ! bless your dear souls, it does me good to behold 
your upturned faces, with blooming cheeks and sparkling 
eyes. ♦ 

The very air we breathe is fraught with beauty and fra- 
grance. And, although not to the manor born, yet my 
associations with this people, and my former residence in 



42 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

this good old town, have been of such a nature as to make 
every inch of her soil, from Beauty Hill to Blue Job, and 
all the way along the beautiful Suncook, dear to my heart 
and memory. And every man, woman, and child among 
you seems, as it were, my own kitii and kin. 

One can scarcely enjoy an occasion like this, with the 
cordial greetings and hearty handshakings of so many 
dear old friends, without being made a better and happier 
man. 

May we go from this Reunion to our several homes, bet- 
ter prepared to take up the weapons of our warfare in 
life's great struggle, and, the good Lord helping us, may 
we each be enabled to accomplish more for His glory and 
the good of man than hitherto we have done. 

1 am proud of my connection with this people, — proud 
of this occasion, — glad of the high })rivilege of being pres- 
ent with you to-day, and of being counted worthy of hold- 
ing a position amon^^ the former residents of your town, 
a town whose people have honored me with their confi- 
dence and support on more than one occasion. 

Although not in the political world at present, there is 
something in our surroundings, or in the air we breathe to- 
day, that seems to spur me up to do something entirely out 
of my line. I see upon this stand some noble specimens 
of " Young America" — sons of old Barnstead, — representa- 
tive men of different political organizations, any one of 
them worthy and well-qualified to fill the chair of state, 
and had we come home to-day to vote, instead of shaking 
hands and eating your " Big Dinner," were Col. Edgerly 
or Col. Tuttle the candidate for Governor, I think I would 
hardly be restrained from letting out the old war-whoop of 
"All for Edgerly," or "All for Tuttle." 

You, sir, remember the story of the old maid's prayer 
for a husband, and its final conclusion, "Any body will do." 
And so with me to-day, any body will do, so he be a son 
of the good old town of Barnstead. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 43 

Wishing you all abundant success and prosperity in this 
life, and a happy home in the " Sweet Bye and Bye," I 
leave you with the hope that your young men may be true 
to the teachings of the fathers, and your young women 
may imitate the virtues of the mothers, to whom Barn- 
stead may point, and proudly exclaim, " These are my 
jewels !" 

7th Sentiment: 

The annual eroj) produced m old Barnstead — 
Judges, Clergymen, Physicians, Merchants, Me- 
chanics, and Farmers — May the crop increase 
until she has enough foi* home consumption and a 
large surplus for exjDortation. 

Response by John D. Kutter, Esq., of Mont- 
real, Canada, substantially as follows: 

Mr. President : 

It would be an injustice to you as well as myself, did I 
not acknowledge the kind words you have spoken and the 
cordial welcome you have extended to those who have 
come from a distance to join you in the greetings, pleas- 
ures, and festivities of this Reunion. 

It is exceedingly pleasant to be remembered by the com- 
panions of our boyhood and school days. It adds an- 
other link to the chain that binds us to the place of our 
birth — home ! that sweetest word and dearest place in this 
world. 

The multitude of the sons and daughters of Barnstead 
who are here to-day, from far and near, proves this asser- 
tion beyond a doubt. 

Here we delight to come, and around the old fireside 
greet each other, and for a brief time hear and recount to 
each other the vicissitudes through which we have passed 
since we left the paternal roof. 



44 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

I have just visited the place where I was born. How 
well I remember its surroundings — the woodland, where I 
hunted the wild partridge — the brook beyond, meandering 
through the Munsoy Meadow, winding its way to the Pa- 
rade, and then lost in the Suncook ; by its side, with hook 
and line, you and I, Mr. Prosideut, have spent many happy 
hours, patiently waiting for the bite of the tiny trout. 

The orcliard, where every good tree was known and 
named, is but a shadow of what it then was, only here and 
there, like sentinels, are a few trees standing. 

The old cottage, with its blazing hearth, the room where 
we lived, my mother, the centre of the family group (my 
father having died before I could remember), seated at the 
table with her knitting, and the children, by the light of a 
tallow candle, studying the lessons for to-morrow's school. 

I saw to-day the jilace where stood the old school-house, 
but how changed ! then a small square building, painted 
red, with a pointed roof, the wooden desks covered with 
jack-knife engravings and the names of its occupants — the 
high desk by the door — the speaking form, and the old fire 
place, have long since passed away. 

The teacher, Mr. President, was none other than your 
father, the Rev. Enos George, and my heart prompts me to 
pay my tribute to his memory and worth. No words of 
mine can do justice to him as a teacher, pastor or man. 

His name and memory is engraved on all our hearts. 
Barnstead can never forget him. He labored here fifty 
years with untiring zeal, as a teacher in education and 
religion, and I believe his influence for good is felt here 
to-day. 

As a minister, clad in that sombre garb, I almost feared 
him, but at his school I lost that fear. 

He was a good teacher, strict in discipline but just, — 
what he promised he performed. I well remember the 
story of the unruly pupil, whom Parson George had prom- 
ised to punish the next day, coming to him asking to be 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 45 

punished at once, as he did not want to dread it so 
long. 

More than a generation has passed since I went ont 
from home, an indigent boy, with a limited education, and 
no knowledge of the world, to try and gather around me 
the comforts of a home. Time lias changed us all — those 
smiling girls are now staid matrons, those happy, careless 
boys are now earnest men upon whose brows the snow of 
winter is fast falling. It has been my lot to have seen 
something of the world, and I have yet to find a place that 
I would exchange, as a home, for New England. God 
bless her. I love her people, her religion, her morality, 
her system of schools, her equal laws, and strict admin- 
istration of the same. 

I hail the Old Flag that is floating above us. I have 
seen it in distant lands, and felt proud that I could claim 
it as my birthright. More than a quarter of a century has 
passed since I have lived under the jurisdiction of the 
United States. Circumstances that led me away when a 
boy have kept me away ever since. Still I claim old Barn- 
stead as my home. 

The pleasure of meeting liere has its sting. The thought 
that we are soon to part presses upon me. Sadly I turn 
away from the scenes I have always lov^ed, leaving buried 
in your soil my ancestors. They lie here in your sacred 
keeping. Let them sleep on quietly until that other and 
last great Reunion. Then, sir, and not till then, shall we 
all meet again. 

8th Sentiment: 

The friends and scenes of our childhood. 

Col. J. Horace Kent had been invited to respond 
to this sentiment, and had written his acceptance; 
but at the last moment was detained by imperative 
business, and was unable to be present at the Re- 



46 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

union, much to his regret, as well as to the regret 
of his many early friends. Col. Kent, however, sent 
the following address, delivered at the Barnstead 
Reunion in Concord, ^. H., February 28, 1879, in 
response to a similar sentiment. 

Mr. President and Friends : 

This pleasant occasion aifords me a double pleasure to- 
night. First, because it brings me into agreeable associa- 
tions with my native townsmen and women, many of whom 
I am personally attached to fg)m lengthy and friendly 
acquaintance, while others are familiarly known through 
their honorable reputations for correct principles, as firm 
and unyielding as the granite hills of our good old state. 
Secondly, I am pleased and I think benefited by being, 
if even for only a short time at least, released from the 
toils and cares of everyday life, and allowed to go back in 
recollection to our old birthplace and review the dear old 
scenes of our youth, where peace and plenty, fun and frolic, 
were the order of the day, and the sweet sleep of inno- 
cence the order of the night. There is nothing better, if 
it be only in fancy, to soften the heart and clear the head, 
Mr. President, than an occasional visit to the homes of our 
childhood, to hear once more the old church bell, to see 
the venerable school-house, and romp and gallop on the 
old playground. It, sir, is a sort of elixir of life whicli 
prolongs our existence ; or adds to it at least, by permit- 
ing us to again enjoy the sweet delights of our youth. 
Notwithstanding our native town was and is a small one, 
its children have been spread over a wide surface of the 
country, and have been somewhat noted as being pretty 
enterprising fellows if not over and above smart, and, as I 
cast my eyes around me, I don't think the present company 
ought to be excepted. It has produced a representative in 
congress and a U. S. senator, and another " Barnstead 
Boy " is very prominently mentioned for senatorial honors 



THE BABNSTEAD REUNION. 47 

should the tide turn in favor of the party of which he is 
so distinguished and able a representative, and I am glad 
to see him here to-night. Numerous other citizens have 
held prominent governmental positions, and among our 
state officials we find that heretofore she has been honora- 
bly and creditably represented, and is, at the present time, 
furnishing one of its most dignified and trusted judicial 
officers. I am gratified to see him, my companion of the 
old brick school-house, here also. 

As to our prominent public teachers sent abroad, the 
gentlemen who have preceded me have justly alluded to 
them, and, my friends, I think, according to our popula- 
tion, Barnstead can carry off the palm in this respect. 
Besides those in other places I can call to mind four or five 
who were at Portsmouth at one time. There were Pick- 
ering, Chesley, George, and Tasker, and 1 don't think I 
shall ever forget the latter. He was an excellent teacher 
(and I was one of his pupils at Portsmouth), always 
opened the morning exercises with prayer, and the prayer 
invariably ended as follows : " Amen, come down here, 
Kent," and as invariably I was punished. In after life 
Tasker told me that I was the best boy to learn my les- 
sons, and deviltry as well, that he had in the school. An 
allusion has been made by one of the speakers that he be- 
lieved it would be as well if not better if so many young 
men did not leave their native homes. I caught his inspir- 
ation, and asked myself the question, " How many of us 
have found a better fortune than we left behind us ?" 

For my own part, although I have seen much of the 
world, have dwelt in large cities, and mixed with all 
classes of people, enjoyed all the pleasures and delights 
which are to be found in rich and populous places, and been 
honored with positions beyond my desert, I sometimes feel 
that when I left old Barnstead I parted with a buoyancy of 
feeling, a hopefulness of heart, a homely simplicity of 
spirit that I have never since regained ; and I look back 



48 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

with almost envy to the old associations and pleasures of 
youth, in and around the old homestead, and faintly realize 
how old father Adam must have felt when he took a fare- 
well look at Paradise as he left it to labor and struggle in 
the world beyond. 

Mr. President, I could mention reminiscences, anecdotes, 
noble acts, jjatriotic purposes, and Christian virtues of 
many of our townsmen and women, several of whom hav- 
ing fulfilled their mission on earth, their spirits have been 
wafted to heaven. Some of them have already been ap- 
propriately alluded to by others ; and I know that if left 
to the ready and eloquent Sinclair to review he will cover 
all the ground that has been left out or neglected. I 
cannot further take up your time, and will say in conclu- 
sion that I heartily enjoy and appreciate this pleasant reun- 
ion of old friends and fellow townsmen, and hope, as has 
been previously suggested, we may have many more such 
gatherings to remind us of the times behind us, and nerve 
us for fresh duties in the days to come. 

I have brought with me, to share my enjoyment, my 
dear old Barnstead mother, my Massachusetts wife, and 
my California son, and though they never speak in meet- 
ing, I am sure that they feel all that I feel, and I feel more 
than I know how to express. Let me close with the fol- 
lowing sentiment : 

The natives of Barnstead and their descendants — May 
Providence multiply their number, substract from their 
sorrows, divide their cares, add to their comforts, and close 
up life's accounts with an honest balance on the right side 
of the ledger. 

9th Sentiment: 

The soldier sons of old Barnstead — The fathers 
in the Revolution, the sons in 1812, the grandsons 
in the Kebelhon — the love of liberty constrained 
them. 



THE BAENSTEAD REUNION. 49 

Responded to by letters from Col. Jas. S. Hoitt, 
of Laconia, :N'. H., a native of Barnstead and a 
veteran of 1812; from Col. Thos. E. Barker, of 
Boston, Mass., a native of Barnstead and Colonel 
of the 12th Regiment in the Rebellion; from Hon. 
Henry H. Huse, of Manchester, a former resident 
of Barnstead, who served in the 8th Regiment as 
Captain and Major. 

LETTER OF COL. JAMES S. HOITT. 

Laconia, Aug. 15, 1882. 
H. N. CoLBATH, Esq.,— 

Dear Sir : Your favor of the 12th inst. is at hand. 

It would give me great pleasure to be present at the Re- 
union Aug 30th, and respond to the best of my ability to 
the sentiment, " The soldier sons of Barnstead." 

It was my privilege to meet some of its sons in 1812 
who went forth with me to defend our country's honor. 

I was personally acquainted with many of the Revolu- 
tionary fathers of old Barnstead, and knew their sturdy 
patriotism. 

In the late Rebellion, we know Barnstead was not found 
wanting ; her sons nobly responded to the call for volun- 
teers, and many of them sealed their devotion with their 

lives. 

I am now over four score years old, but if my health 
continues as good as at present, I will try and be present. ^^ 
Always entertaining great respect for " Old Barnstead " 
and its inhabitants, I remain 

Yours truly, 

JAMES S. HOITT. 



60 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

LETTER OF THOMAS E. BARKER. 

Boston, Aug. 15, 1882. 
Horace N. Colbath, Esq., — 

Dear Sir : On my return this aftornooii after an ab- 
sence of several days, I received yours of the 12th, asking 
me to respond to the sentiment " The soldier sons of old 
Barnstead," at the Reunion Aug. 30. It would afford me 
great pleasure to be present at the Reunion, and if there 
to say a word — thougli I could do the subject feeble justice. 

A sentiment so grand, because it calls the roll of a 
long line of heroes who, animated by a love of liberty and 
country, offered their lives in its defence — sealing their 
devotion with their blood, than which nobler never flowed 
in the veins of men. But as it is hardly probable that I 
shall be able to be present on that occasion, I beg to be ex- 
cused from being counted on to speak. 

Thanking you for your kind remembrance of me, and 
wishing a most complete and grand success, and all a 
pleasant Reunion, I am. 

Yours very truly, 

THOMAS E. BARKER. 

LETTER FROM HON. HENRY H. HUSE. 

Manchester, N. H., Aug. 28, 1882. 
Horace N. Colbath, Esq., — 

My Dear Sir : I am in receipt of your request to 
respond to the patriotic sentiment, " The soldier sons of old 
Barnstead," enclosed therein, at the Barnstead Reunion on 
the 30th inst. 

I regret exceedingly my inability to comply therewith, 
for reasons entirely out of my power to control. 

If any man in the world knows the metal of Barnstead 
boys in the face of the enemy, I am that one ; if any one 
has a lasting and fervent veneration for their heroism and 
bravery, I am that one. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 51 

I have tramped, camped, and fought with them, and 
have mingled my tears with theirs over the grave of many 
a poor comrade who was not permitted to return to partic- 
ipate in your Reunion. 

1 have shared in their pleasures around the far-off camp- 
fire, and in the deprivations, sufferings, and miseries such 
as only a veteran can appreciate. 

The sentiment which you ask me to answer, recalls a 
flood of tender memories and personal recollections, and I 
would gladly embrace the opportunity you offer me to pay 
a worthy tribute to the living and to tlie dead, who did 
honor to the goodly reputation of old Barnstead in the 
war of the rebellion. 

I would bring to this Reunion the dying message of a 
typical " soldier son " of our grand old town, delivered to 
me in the hospital at New Orleans, after months of suffer- 
ing following the battle in which he was fatally wounded. 
In the face of certain death, he said : " It's all right, Cap- 
tain. Tell my friends at home I fell rig-hi under the old 
Jlag-, and that is glory enough for me." 

Such were the " grandsons in the Rebellion." If the 
" sons of 1812," and the " fathers in the Revolution," 
were fit sires of such as these, then truly " the love of lib- 
erty constrained them," and we do well to perpetuate their 
valorous deeds for the emulation of future generations. 
I am very sincerely yours, 

HENRY H. HUSE. 

10th Sentiment: 

The birthplaces of our fathers — Portsmouth and 
JS^ewmgton — uames as familiar as household 
words to every child of Barnstead ; may peace 
and prosperity be in their borders. 

The Secretary read the following: 



62 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

HYMN.— Tune : "America." 



BY MRS. DARIUS FRINK, NKWINGTON, N. H. 



[Written for the Barnstead Reunion.] 

We welcome one and all, 
At this reunion call, 

This festive day ; 
We'll lift our hearts with praise. 
To Thee, O Strength of Days, 
And sing our songs and lays. 

With melody. 

We've come from many a clime. 
To have a merry time, 

To greet you here ; 
Every familiar spot — ■ 
Hill, valley, and the cot, 
No scenes have been forgot. 

To us so dear. 

The dearest place on earth, 
Is that which gave us birth. 

The Old Homestead ; 
Where we were loved so well — 
By Father, Mother, Friend ; 
No tongue cati ever tell 

How much they loved. 

Many have passed away. 
Since our last gala day — 

To that blest home. 
They've gone where all is bright. 
Where there is no more night, 
For God is the gTeat light, 

Heav'n to illume. 

Our pastor, where is he ? 
Who taught us piety, 

With God abides. 
He kept our village school, 
Learnt us the Golden Rule, 
Spared not the rod or 'rule 

When us he chide. 



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How good, O God, to spare, 
With Thy omniscient care, 

Our lives so frail; 
We'll worship, while we live, 
Thou whom didst being give, 
O may we with Thee live, 

Within the vail. 

Our parents, they have gone 
To swell that endless throng 

Above the skies. 
We soon shall join them there, 
Seraphic pleasures share — 
Forever in God's care, 

In Paradise. 

And as we take our leave. 
Our kind regards receive. 

For courtesy. 
When pass'd the last milestone, 
Our eyes we'll fondly turn 
On Barnstead, the hearthstone 

Of infancy. 

11th Sentiment: 

The host of men whose lives have been made 
better and happier by choosing for wives, daugh- 
ters of old Barnstead. 

Responded to by Howard A. Dodge, Esq., of 
Concord, ]N^. H. 

12th Sentiment: 

The social history and reminiscences of Barn- 
stead. 

Hon. John G. Sinclair eloquently and wittily 
responded to this sentiment, the following being 
but a small part of his address, which elicited the 
heartiest enthusiasm and laughter. Mr. Sinclair, 



54 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

upon being introduced as the " Barnstead Boy " 
and the " wit of the family," said: 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

Standing here in the midst of the scenes, and surrounded 
by the friends, of my childhood, I feel indeed, that 
" My foot is on my native heath." 

Time rolls back, and boy again I gaze upon that peace- 
ful river, hunt the turtle's nest upon its banks, and pluck 
from its bosom the beautiful lily. 

From the time I passed the boundary of the old town, 
till my arrival here, memories long sleeping came leaping 
forth to greet me. 

From the bridge which crossed its first brook, how often 
had I watched the trout, the dace, the roach, and the bar- 
bel, and with my pin hook almost caught them. That 
brook, upon whose green banks I once verily believed 
fairies, clothed in crimson and green, violet and gold, 
came forth at midnight to dance in the light of the moon ; 
for did not Polly Nutter tell me so ? And often did I steal 
from my bed in the " wee sma' " hours of the night, and 
from my window overlooking that brook, look and listen. 
But it was always a bad night for fairies, and Polly ex- 
plained that, doubtless, on these particular nights, they had 
been detailed by their queen to watch over good little boys, 
who, having said their prayers on retiring, had gone imme- 
diately to sleep. 

To-day, when knowledge with relentless hand has 
despoiled its shores of its fairies, when no more 

" Merry elves their morrice pacing 
To aerial minstrelsy ;" 

yet, in the music of its rippling waters, I still hear the 
wild refrain, 

" Men may come and men may go, 
But I go on forever," 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION, 55 

The Parade ground, with its green sward bespangled 
and bedecked with dandelion, butter-cup, and thistle-blow, 
is the same as when upon it I drove my hoop, chased the 
butterfly, and made my first acquaintance with the " business 
end " of the bumble-bee. 

Tliere, too, to my shame be it said, my cousin John El- 
bridge Bunker received at the hands of our sainted but 
near-sighted grandmother a whipping to which doubtless I 
had best title ; nearly of an age and size, tlirough a fancy 
of our mothers we were dressed alike ; I boarded with the 
good old lady while attending the village school ; after 
troubling her much, she exacted a promise that I would 
not stop after school was dismissed to play ball ; for two 
long days I kept that promise, but on the third the en- 
ticement of the great national game was too much for my 
moral stamina. 

For half an hour I engaged in it, — was at the bat, when 
I saw the dear old lady coming, with one hand suspiciously 
concealed under her apron. 

A very short process of reasoning led me to the logical 
conclusion, that in that hand, must I confess it ? was an 
old and not too pleasant acquaintance of mine, a well-sea- 
soned birch stick ; as she came around one side of the old 
church, with a brief excuse I handed the bat to my cousin 
and disappeared by the other, when the old lady cautiously 
advancing seized him by the collar and administered to 
my profoundly astonished cousin a castigation, which in 
the base ball parlance of to-day might be called a " red 
hot one," and when she returned to the house and found 
me unwhipped, I shall never forget the attitude she struck, 
nor her exclamation of " Mercy on me, who have I 
whipped !" 

There, too, was enacted one of the most ludicrous 
scenes in the life of old Jonathan Scriggins, always witty, 
drunk or sober. Parson George had a cow which he was 
wont to let run in the road. She plundered indiscrimi- 



66 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

nately all the carts and wagons of the farmers who came 
to the Parade to trade. But so long as it was Parson 
George's cow, it was all right. At that time, brass balls 
for cattle's horns first came in style. The worthy Parson, 
seeing some at Concord, bought a pair, brought them home, 
and next morning placed them on the horns of his cow, and 
turned her again into the road. At about eleven o'clock 
that morning, when several of the principal men of the town, 
including Parson George, were standing in front of the 
post-office, awaiting the arrival of the mail, the cow was 
observed coming down street, and Mr. Scriggins with a 
load on which it had evidently been better for him to have 
gone twice after, came staggering up street. Neither 
seemed disposed to give way to the other, and the cow ad- 
vancing to within about four feet of him stopped short. The 
old gentleman, discovering that something obstructed his 
way, brought himself to a balance, opened wide his eyes, 
took in the situation, and politely removing his liat, ex- 
claimed : " Good mornin' — hie — good mornin', madam ; 
I should advise you — hie — to sell your jewels and buy you 
a pasture !" 

What fable of ^'Esop's ever had better moral than this ? 

Sir, I have stood upon the soil of most of the states of 
the union. Nowhere else has the air seemed so pure, the 
water so limpid, the grass so green, the flowers so bright, 
and the hearts of men and women so loyal and true, as 
here in the home of our childhood. 

And sir, the Hodgdons, the Nutters, the Clarks, the 
Bunkers, the Bickfords, the Walkers, the Jewetts, the 
Peaveys, the Wilsons, Garlands, Colbaths, Dows, Drews, 
Websters, Berrys, and Munseys, and a host of other good 
men and true of that day, may it please God that other 
generations of the sons and daughters of old Barnstead, 
who may meet as we now meet, may say of us as truth- 
fully as we of them, they acted well their part, and 
"Aftei- life's fitful fever they sleep well." 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 57 

But time admonishes me I must close. God bless the old 
homestead I With pride to-day we point to lier record. She 
has furnished the pulpit with sincere and eloquent divines, 
to the bench a most able jurist, to the bar most accom- 
plished advocates, to the medical profession skilled physi- 
cians, and in times of national difficulty and danger the 
steps of her sons " have always been quick and to tlie 
front." On the hardest fought fields of the war of the 
Revolution, the war of 1812, the Mexican war, and the 
late war of the Rebellion, they have spilled their best 
blood, and offered up their lives. 

13th SE]srTiMENT: 

The resident sons and danghters of Barnstead — 
May they preserve unsullied its ancient reputation, 
keep sacred the memory of the fiithers, and be 
always ready to welcome its wandering children 
to the old domain. 

John B. Garland, Esq., of Barnstead, was in- 
vited to respond to this sentiment, but on account 
of ill-health and the infirmities of age was obliged 
to forego that pleasure, but answered by the fol- 
lowing characteristic letter: 

LETTER OF JOHN B. GARLAND. 

North Barnstead, N. H., Aug. 16, 1882. 
Horace N. Golbath, Esq, — 

Dear Sir : When I first learned there was to be a Re- 
union of the sons and daughters of Barnstead, it seemed 
that I could not deny myself the pleasure of being present 
on that occasion. 

But a second thought convinced me that I was unable to 
attend. Nevertheless, I am with you in spirit. 



68 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

I seem to sec our guests coming' from every quarter, like 
pilgrims to tlie Mecca of their early, hallowed associations 
and local attachments, to look once more upon the graves 
of their fathers, to strew them with flowers and water 
them with tears of love and gratitude, to revisit the ances- 
tral hearthstone and rekindle the ancient family altar, and 
there make an offering of a humble and thankful lieart. 
It is fitting, it is appropriate — there is a moral beauty in 
this meeting, after so long an absence. And, now they are 
to be here, we will kill the fatted calf and give them a 
hearty welcome. Doubtless many of these pilgrims have 
returned, like Jacob, with their pockets full of shekels. 
Jacob, you know, was a little tricky in his youth, but he 
got beat when he sei-ved fourteen years for too much wife. 
But in after years, when he desired to return to his Barn- 
stead and have a reunion, and was told his brother Esau 
was coming to meet him, he remembered his youthful follies ; 
so he sent before a present for a peace offering. Now, Mr. 
Secretary, if any of our guests should offer you a present, 
for love's sake take it. We can invest it in this Reunion, 
in Sunday-school books, in a town library, or in Paris green, 
for we know it is a mighty hard row to pick potato bugs 
for a living. 

But Mr. Secretary, Barnstead has another scourge infi- 
nitely worse than bugs or army worms. It is an army of 
Bachelors,* who are not only destructive to potatoes, but 
to all hope of posterity. In my quarter of the town they 
are thick as toad-stools. Why, sir, a majority of our se- 
lectmen are bachelors, who ought to be fathers of the 
town. I do hope there will be among our guests a goodly 
number of marriageable ladies — each of whom will be as 
willing to go a courting as was Ruth, wlien slie accepted 
the advice to Naomi, in the words, "All that thou sayest 
unto me will I do." 

* Mr. Garland is a bachelor. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 59 

Ruth, you know, went a courting, had a pleasant inter- 
view, got a promise, and carried home nearly three pecks 
of barley. 

May each of these marriageable ladies carry home, not 
a sack of barley but a live bachelor, with this promise, 
"All that thou sayest unto me will I do." But, whatever 
may be our individual circumstances, may each member of 
this assembly be as happy as was Joseph when he made 
himself known to liis brethren, after he had filled their 
sacks with corn and money. 

I close with a cordial greeting to all. 
Yours truly, 

JOHN B. GARLAND. 



Biographical Sketches. 



KEY. EIS^OS GEORGE. 

Enos George, the son of Enos and Dorothy 
George, was born June 2, 1781, at South Hamp- 
ton, N. H. 

He received his education at the town schools 
and at Atkinson Academy, and studied for the 
ministry. 

At a town meeting held at Barnstead Nov. 10, 
1803, it was unanimously voted to settle Mr. 
George as pastor. The town voted $1000 settle- 
ment and a salary. He was ordained and installed 
as pastor of the Congregational Church Septem- 
ber 26, 1804, and remained pastor until his death, 
over fifty-five years after. 

In July previous to his installation, he married 
Miss Sophia Chesley, daughter of Jonathan Ches- 
ley, Esq., of Barnstead. Her life was full of quiet 
benevolence and kindness, and adorned by Chris- 
tian graces. She died February 13, 1858, aged 
76 years, and was soon followed by her husband, 
who died October 29, 1859, aged 78 years. 

For twenty years after his settlement, Parson 
George was teacher of the winter term of school 
at the Parade, and also taught several terms in 
the north part of the town. 



THE BAENSTEAD REUNION. 61 

From 1816 to his death in 1859, he was annually 
elected town-clerk of the town. That there was 
no opposition to his election during these forty- 
two years, attests the faithfulness of the officer 
and the popularity of the man. 

In 1829, he was chaplain of the I^ew Hamp- 
shire legislature. 

In 1843 and 1844, he represented Barnstead in 
the general court. 

While speaking of his virtues and character- 
istics, one is at loss where to begin and where 
to end. 

He was well proportioned in person, erect in 
carriage, and of commanding pi-esence. His 
countenance was grave, and gave the impression 
of severity; but he was quite the reverse, being 
cheerful and social in conversation and intercourse. 

There was a vein of wit and humor in his char- 
acter, which would occasionally reveal itself, but 
not so as to compromise his dignity and serious- 
ness. 

Wherever he was placed, or whatever his sur- 
roundings, he was always a gentleman. 

As a preacher be was plain, earnest, and scrip- 
tural, seeking to present the great truths of the 
Bible in their simplicity. This he valued above 
ornament in Style and oratory. Yet his rank as a 
pulpit orator was high. His voice was clear and 
sonorous, his manner and appearance dignified, his 
action deliberate, and his sermons models of sys- 
tem, scripture illustration, and good language. 



62 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

His ambition was not to be a great man or 
preacher, but to be useful among his people, to 
instruct them and their children, to point out the 
shining way, and with them walk therein. 

His ministry was long and successful. He 
preached 6,9(55 sermons, solemnized 693 marriages, 
and attended 1,000 funerals. 

Unlike the custom of to-day, he, with his church 
and parish, considered his settlement final, and 
here his life work. 

From the day he came with his young bride 
among them, to the day of his death, he 

" Ne'er had changed, or wished to change his place." 

Although his ear was open to every call of duty 
from abroad, and his sympathies quick to respond 
to all good works wherever begun or carried out, 
yet inside the border lines of Barnstead he saw 
his Master's work, and all through his long minis- 
try his loving faith in her never knew any turning, 
and right generously his people repaid his love, his 
faith, and his labor. Probably no preacher in his 
day could excel Parson George in a funeral ad- 
dress. His services on such occasions were sought 
for not only by his own townsmen, but by others 
from abroad, members of other churches or per- 
haps not members of any chvu'ch. 

The faculty of saying the right words at the 
proper time, the choosing of appropriate texts of 
scripture, his hopeful and charitable views of the 
departed, and his faithful and touching admonition 
of the living, were peculiar gifts. 







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THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 63 

If, at such times, his strict theology yielded 
something to the demands of the occasion, it 
spoke volumes for his goodness of heart, and was 
gratefully remembei'ed by the living. 

The good he did, as a preacher and teacher in 
Barnstead, was great, and his influence for good 
will be felt in coming generations. He was a good 
man and ministei*, and came to his grave in a good 
old age, like a shock of corn fully ripe. 

The memory of the just is blessed! 



HO]N^. HIRAM A. TUTTLE. 

BY JOHN WHEELER, M. D. 

Hiram A. Tuttle was born in Barnstead, Octo- 
ber 16, 1837, being the elder of a family of two 
sons. 

His father George Tuttle, and his grandfather 
Col. John Tuttle, were also natives of the same 
town. His great grandfather John Tuttle, settled 
in Barnstead in 1776, coming there from that 
locality in Dover known as " Back River,'' where 
a part of the Tuttle family had resided since the 
settlement there of their emigrant ancestor, John 
Tuttle, who came from England before 1641. 

His mother, Judith Mason Davis, is a descend- 
ant from Samuel Davis, a soldier of the Revolu- 
tion, and one of the primeval settlers of Barn- 
stead. Brave soldiers of the Davis family from 
four generations have represented that town in the 
four great wars in which our country has been 
engaged. 



64 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

When Mr. Tuttle was nine years of age, he 
moved with his fathei''s family to the adjoining 
town of Pittsfield, where he attended the pubUc 
schools and Pittsfield Academy, while the latter 
was under the charge successively of I. F. Fol- 
som, Lewis W. Clark, and Prof. Dyer H. Sanborn. 

After having been engaged in several vocations, 
in all of which he showed industry and faithful- 
ness, at the age of seventeen years, he became 
connected with the clothing establishment of Lin- 
coln & Shaw, of Concord, where he remained sev- 
eral years. 

The abilit}' and zeal which he exhibited while 
there, won for him the confidence and respect of 
his employers, who established him in the manage- 
ment of a branch store in Pittsfield, of which he 
soon became proprietor. 

His business increased, gradually at first and 
then i-apidly, till his establishment had gained an 
extensive patronage, and ranked among the larg- 
est in the state. It is so favorably remembered 
by former residents and patrons, that orders are 
received from distant states and territories. 

Mr. Tuttle has also been interested in real 
estate. He has built many dwelling-houses, in- 
cluding a fine residence for himself, and the best 
business buildings in the village. In many ways 
he has promoted the growth, social and business 
interests, and general prosperity of his adopted 
town. He is a trustee in the savings bank, a 
director in the national bank, and a trustee of the 
academy in Pittsfield. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 65 

When he attained his majority, in 1859, he ex- 
pressed his determination of casting his first vote 
with the RepubUcan party, and has ever been true 
to that party. Although Pittsfield has a Demo- 
cratic majority under normal circumstances, Mr. 
Tuttle has received the support of a large majority 
of its voters at times when his name has been pre- 
sented for position. 

In 1873 and 1874, he was representative to the 
legislature. In 1876, he received the appointment, 
with the rank of colonel, on the staff of Gov. 
Cheney, and with the governor and staff visited 
the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 

He was elected a member of the executive coun- 
cil from the second district in 1878, and re-elected 
in 1879, under the new constitution, for the term 
of two years. 

Mr. Tuttle has been very successful in all he 
has undertaken, but his thrift has never made 
him arrogant or indifferent. He has cheerfully 
shared with others the results of the good for- 
tune that Providence has granted him. He is an 
honorable, agreeable, and companionable gentleman 
in all the relations of life. 

As a citizen, neighbor, and friend, he is held in 
the highest estimation. He has furnished employ- 
ment for many; and has been kind to the poor, 
very respectful to the aged, charitable to the erring, 
and a sympathizing helper to the embarrassed and 
unfortunate. 

Few men have more or firmer personal friends, 
whose friendship is founded on kindness and sub- 



66 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

staiitial favors received. He gives with remarka- 
ble generosity to all charitable objects presented 
to him, and is very hospitable in his pleasant home. 
Mr. Tuttle accepts the Christian religion, and 
w^orships with the Congregational church. While 
he contributes liberally for the supjDort of the 
denomination of his choice, he does not withhold 
a helping hand from the other religious sects in 
his town. 

In his domestic relations he has been very for- 
tunate. He married, in 1859, Miss Mary C. French, 
the only child of John L. French, Esq., formerly 
cashier of the Pittsfield Bank. Their only child, 
Hattie French Tuttle, was born Jan. 17, 1861. 



COL. E. s. :n^utter. 

Eliphalet Simes iSTutter, the second son of Eli- 
phalet and Lovey (Locke) N^utter, was born in 
Barnstead, November 26, 1819. 

He was a grandson of Major John ISTutter, who 
settled in Barnstead in 1767, and afterwards 
served in the Revolution, as Major of Col. George 
Reid's Regiment. His father as well as his grand- 
father were prominent in the affairs of the town, 
and held the various offices in the gift of their 
townsmen. 

His boyhood was s])ent on hie father's farm, 
and his active mind and feet kept busy, as boys 
were wont to be in those days, helping in the 
cares and labor incident to a large farm. 



THE BARNSTEAD EEUNION. 67 

He received the usual school advantages, and 
taught school several winters. Among his pupils 
were Hon* J. Horace Kent, Hon. C. M. Murphy, 
and Horace ^. Colbath, Esq., who will each tes- 
tify to his tact and faithfulness as a teacher. 

Like his ancestors, he early evinced a taste for 
military affairs, and was commissioned by Gov. 
Isaac Hill, in 1837, a lieutenant, and by Gov. 
John Page, in 1839, a captain in the IS^ew Hamp- 
shire militia. 

In 1844, he opened a country store at Barn- 
stead Parade, and for eleven years did a large and 
increasing business. Was postmaster there eight 
years, and is remembered by his patrons and busi- 
ness associates as an honorable, keen, sagacious 
business man. 

In 1855, he removed to Concord, IST. H., where 
he has since resided. 

Was for five years in business in New Yoi'k 
city. Was President of the I^. H. Central K. E.; 
owned for seven ^^ears one of the best grocery 
stores in Lawrence, Mass ; was in the drug busi- 
ness in Concord five years; at present has a store 
on Washington St., Boston, Mass. 

Since 1844 he has been in active business, and 
now is in the enjoyment of the accumulations of 
forty years' successful business — the just reward 
of industry, enterprise, and perseverance. 

Col. Nutter has always been noted for his love 
of his native town; anything that concerned her 
good name, that tended to her material prosper- 
ity or her moi-al and social welfare, has enlisted his 



68 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

sympathy and commanded his active, substantial 
support. 

To him, more than any other, are due the thanks 
of the sons and daughters of Barnstead for the 
Barnstead Reunion. 

Upon his call, was held the meeting of the sons 
and daughters of Barnstead living in Concord, 
which resulted in the Keunion held at Phenix Ho- 
tel, Feb. 28, 1878, at which he presided; and that 
Heunion paved the way for the Barnstead Keun- 
ion held Aug. 30, 1882, to which he generously 
contributed. 

He married, in 1845, Miss Sylvania M. Blanch- 
ard, of Lowell, Mass. — a true helpmeet and a 
worthy wife, who gracefully dispenses the hospi- 
talities of their beautiful home. 



JOHN G. SINCLAIR. 

Richard Sinclair was one of the earliest settlers 
of the town of Gilmanton, NT. H., and it is claimed 
that he built the first framed house there. He was 
a soldier in both the French and Indian war and 
the war of the Revolution. In the last he ranked 
captain, although he was generally known in the 
locality in which he lived as Col. Sinclair. He 
married Polly Cilley, a sister of Col. Joseph Cil- 
ley. Richard Sinclair, Jr., their eldest son, and 
one of the earliest settlers in Barnstead, was 
also a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and an 
ensign in his father's company. He married Bet- 
sey Hodgdon. Charles G. Sinclair was their only 





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THE BARNSTEAD REUNION, 69 

son, who, at the age of seventeen, enhsted as a 
soldier in the war of 1812, and for a time was 
clerk for Gen. Ripley. He received a severe gun- 
shot wound near the right lung, at the sortie at 
Fort Erie, which disabled him for life. He married 
Martha G. ISTorris, a daughter of Joseph Morris, of 
Barnstead. 

John G. Sinclair, their only child, and the 
subject of this sketch, was born at Barnstead Pa- 
rade, March 25, 1826. His father died July, 1834, 
leaving him and his mother in destitute circum- 
stances. His mother, with her needle, supported 
them and kept him at school at Pittsfield Academy 
until he was thirteen years of age, when he en- 
tered the service of Webster & Peavey, merchants 
at Landaff, !N^. H. The firm consisted of Hon. 
Samuel Webster, of N^orth Barnstead, and Samuel 
P. Peavey, a former resident of Barnstead, who 
married a sister of Mrs. Sinclair's. 

He remained at Landaff six years, attending 
five terms of the N^ewbury Seminary, in Vermont, 
where he fitted for college under the tuition of 
Bishop Baker and Rev. Clark T. Hinman. A fear 
of leaving his mother destitute in case of his own 
death, prevented his entering college, and he com- 
menced business for himself in a restaurant, at the 
corner of Hanover and Elm streets, Manchester, 
IS". H. ISTot satisfied with the business, he left 
Manchester, and established an auction and com- 
mission business at Lawrence, Mass. Having ac- 
quired limited means, he returned to JSTew-Hamp- 
shire, established a country store, and engaged in 



70 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

the manufacture of starch in Bethlehem, in 
1847. 

In 1852, '53, '54, and '55, in 1862 and '63, and 
in 1875, '76, and '77, he represented Bethlehem in 
the state legislature, and served as its member in 
the last constitutional convention. 

In 1873, he represented Littleton in the legisla- 
ture being then a resident of that town. 

He was appointed bank commissioner by Gov. 
Baker, and served until the American party came 
into power. 

In 1858 and '59, he was Senator from the 12th 
senatorial district, composed of Grafton and Coos 
counties. 

He was Democratic candidate for speaker of the 
house, and Democratic candidate for governor in 
1866, '67, and '68. Under the instruction of the 
convention which nominated him in 1867, he in- 
vited Gen. Walter Harriman, the Republican can- 
didate for governor, to a j)ublic discussion of the 
issues involved in the campaign, the result of 
which was thii'teen joint discussions at the pi-inci- 
pal points in the state, the first of the kind ever 
held in Nqw England. In 1868, he was chairman 
of the ]S^. H. delegation to the national convention. 
In 1876, he was Democratic candidate for United 
States senator, against Edward H. Rollins, Repub- 
lican. 

In 1879, he removed to Orlando, Orange county, 
in the state of Florida, where he has established 
a large real estate business, and is also engaged in 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 71 

the cultivation of oranges and other semi-tropical 
fruits. 

Mr. Sinclair has been twice married: first, in 
1847, to Tamar M., daughter of Col. David Clark, 
of Landaff, by whom he had three children — 
Charles A., Emma S., and Martha A. Sinclair. 
His first wife dying, he married, in 1872, Mary E. 
Blandin, daughter of John Pierce, Esq., of Lit- 
tleton. 



COL. M. y. B. EDGERLY. 

Martin Van Buren Edgerly was born in Barn- 
stead, September, 26, 1833, the son of the late 
Samuel J. and Eliza (Bickford) Edgerly. 

His father, a man of intelligence and mental 
activity, was honored by the town with several 
important offices, and would have been one of the 
foremost men in the town and prominent in the 
state, had not disease laid its hand on him in 
his early manhood. 

His mother was the daughter of Moses Bick- 
ford, an early settler in Barnstead, and a very 
intelligent and capable woman. 

When twelve years of age, his parents removed 
to Manchester, N. H., and he attended the public 
schools for several years, after which he entered 
the employ of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Com- 
pany. At the age of twenty- three, he opened a 
drug store in Manchester. A year among the 
drugs and chemicals satisfied him of his inapti- 
tude for trade, and he removed to Pittsfield, ]^. H., 



72 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

and soon engaged in the fire and life insurance 
business. 

Here he made his first real beginning in life. 
His ready intelligencej earnestness of purpose, and 
personal magnetism, were requisites for success, 
and he built up a large business. 

Having received the offer of a large salary for 
those times, to devote his attention exclusively to 
the interests of the Massachusetts Mutual Life 
Insurance Company, he relinquished his fire agency 
and went into the profession of life insurance with 
such enei'gy and success as to place his company 
in the front rank of those doing business in New 
Hampshire. 

One year after, in 1860, he became general 
agent for 'New Hampshire, with head-quarters at 
Manchester, and soon after established his resi- 
dence there, which residence he still retains. 

In 1863, the whole business of the company in 
New Hampshire, Vermont, and northern New 
York was committed to his care. 

From 1868 to 1870, he served as superintendent 
of agencies throughout the United States, besides 
retaining the direction of his own special depart- 
ment. 

In 1874, he was prevailed upon to give a por- 
tion of his time to the Boston office, the oldest 
and most important of its agencies. 

He became, in 1882, one of the directors of the 
company, and, in 1883, was made vice-president 
and general manager of agencies, which position 



THE BAENSTEAD EEUNION. 73 

he now holds, still retammg the personal manage- 
ment of the l^ew Hampshire agency. 

Although the activities of his career have de- 
nied him opportunity for seeking distinction, he 
has ever taken a strong interest in political mat- 
ters, and has been valiant in the Democratic faith. 

In 1871, he was appointed by Gov. Weston 
chief of his military staff, with rank of colonel. 

In 1872, he was delegate at large to the national 
Democratic convention. 

Was a member of the national Democratic com- 
mittee from 1872 to 1876. 

In 1874, was elected one of the board of alder- 
men in a strong Republican ward. He frequently 
served as a member of the Democratic state com- 
mittee, and was treasurer of the same in 1873 and 
1874. 

In 1882, was the Democratic candidate for gov- 
ernor. For once the people sought the candidate, 
not the candidate the nomination. He made a 
splendid run. Such was his popularity where he 
was best known that he carried Manchester, over- 
coming 700 Repubhcan majority at the preceding 
election, carrying Hillsborough county and wiping 
out its 1(300 adverse majority. 

Besides his professional and political engage- 
ments, which would seem sufficiently numerous and 
complicated to engage the time of one individual, 
he has given the benefit of his sagacity and judg- 
ment to several commercial and financial institu- 
tions and corporations. 



74 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

In lB73 and 1874, he was commander of the 
Amoskeag Veterans. 

During the Centennial Exhibition at Philadel- 
phia he was, by appointment of President Grant, 
one of the commissioners representing New Hamp- 
shire. 

He was married, in 1854, to Alvina Barney, of 
Danbury, !N^. H., and has two children — Clinton 
Johnson (a practicing lawyer in Boston) and Ma- 
bel Clayton Edgerly. 

Though in the prime of life, Col. Edgerly has 
done a long life-work. Yet he seems to be but on 
the threshold of his career. Col. Edgerly is of 
strong, well-built frame, with a tendency to portli- 
ness. His face is frank and pleasant, and his 
manners suave and engaging. 

In his family and in society he elicits most cordial 
aflection and regard, and, in business, his straight- 
forward and inflexible conduct have made hie 
name a synonym for probity and honor. 



HON. CHAELES M. MURPHY. 

We live in days when the success of men ap- 
parently born to lives of grinding toil is a frequent 
sign of the times. 

Such opportunities are now open to him who 
has a good order of ability, with high health and 
spirits, who has all his wits about him and feels 
the circulation of his blood and the motion of his 




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THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 75 

heart, that the lack of early advantages forms no 
barrier to success. 

A striking illustration of the truth of these 
statements is exhibited in the following sketch: 

Charles M. Murphy, son of John and Mary 
(Meader) Murphy, was born in Alton, N". li., No- 
vember 3, 1835. In 1842, his parents removed to 
Barnstead, and settled upon the Tasker farm at 
South Barnstead. Here the child grew in stature 
and filled out and braced his frame by hard man- 
ual labor. 

Scanty record is left of these years of severe 
work and continuous struggle, but there is little 
doubt that the discipline developed an indomitable 
will and sturdy self-reliance, which alone enable 
poor men's children to grapple with the world that 
under more favorable circumstances might never 
have shown their full capacity of force and ten- 
acity. 

Again, it is widely believed, and nowhere more 
strongly .than in opulant cities and busy marts, 
that a boy is better bred on a farm in close contact 
with the ground than elsewhere. He is quite 
as likely to be generous, brave, humane, honest 
and straightforward, as his city-bred contemporary, 
while as to self-dependence, strength and stamina, 
he has a great advantage over his rival. 

He attended the district school during the win- 
ter terms until of an age suitable to leave the 
parental care, when for two terms he enjoyed the 
advantages of ISTorwich Academy, Yt. At school 



76 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

he was diligent and ambitious, cheerful and active 
in athletic sports. 

Being the oldest of four boys, he assisted for 
some years his father in educating and advancing 
the interests of his brothers. One brother, John 
E., became a dentist, and practiced at Pittsfield, 
I*^. H., and Marblehead, Mass., dying at the age of 
thirty-five years. Anothei* brother, Frank Mur- 
phy, M. D., a graduate of Dartmouth College, 
practiced in ]N^orthwood and Stratford, N. H., but 
died at the veiy flush and promise of life, aged 
tv^^enty-nine. Another, Albert Wan-en Mnrphy, 
D. D. s., a graduate of the Philadelphia Dental 
College. After one year's practice in Boston, re- 
moved, in 1872, to Paris, France, w^here his pro- 
fessional labors brought him both credit and profit. 
At the expiration of two years, an active interest 
in Spanish affairs and a desire to test the business 
advantages of the country led him to Spain. He 
soon settled in Madrid, where he now resides, and 
in 1879 was appointed dentist to the royal family. 

At the age of twentj^-two he married 'Miss Sa- 
brina T. Clark, daughter of Isaac Clark, Esq., 
of Barnstead and after a few months spent in 
farming on his own account, he moved to Dover, 
I*^. H., where with less than one hundred and fifty 
dollars he began the study of dentistry with Dr. 
Jefterson Smith. To this business he brought the 
same energy and power to prolong the hours of 
labor, and in two years was pronounced competent 
to practice. Soon after Dr. Smith died, and Dr. 
Murphy succeeded to his practice, and for eigh- 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 77 

teen years devoted his entire time and strength to 
a large and profitable business. 

In 1878, he withdrew from his profession and 
became a broker. His coolness, sagacity and de- 
votion to business has met well deserved success. 

Dr. Murphy early gave much attention to polit- 
ical matters. A strong and devoted Republican, 
his influence in his adopted city has long been 
felt. 

In 1871 and 1873, he was a representative from 
Dover, and a member of Gov. Straw's staff. 

He was appointed and confirmed consul to Mos- 
cow but declined. 

In 1880, was a delegate to the Republican na- 
tional convention at Chicago, where he strongly 
supported Blaine. 

In 1880, was elected mayor of the city of Do- 
ver, and re-elected in 1881. 

In 1881, received the honorary degree of A. B., 
from Lewis College. 

Dr. Murphy was elected president of the Dover 
Five Cent Savings Bank and under his guidance 
it became strong and successful. 

He has been twice married. His first wife dy- 
ing — being preceded to the better land by their 
three children, — he married Mrs. Eliza T. Hanson, 
widow of the late John T. Hanson of Dover, who 
dispenses a gracious hospitality in their spacious 
home. 



78 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

JUDGE LEWIS W. CLARK. 

Lewis Whitehouse Clark was born August 19, 
1828, at Barnstead, N. H. 

He is the son of Jeremiah and Hannah (White- 
house) Chirk, and has one sister, Sarah M., wife 
of Samuel E. Batchelder, Esq., of Illine, 111. 

The Clark family were early and influential set- 
tlers in Barnstead and pi'ominent in its aff'airs. 

His father, Jeremiah Clark, Esq., held mau}^ 
offices of trust in Barnstead, and after his removal 
to Pittsfield, N. H., was for many years one of 
its selectmen and represented it in the general 
court. 

He acquired his preliminary education in the 
public schools of Barnstead and in the academies 
at Pittsfield and Atkinson, and then entered Dart- 
mouth College, where he graduated in 1850. 

From August, 1850, to December, 1852, he was 
principal of the Academy at Pittsfield. 

Meanwhile he studied law; at first with Hon. 
Moses JSTorris, and afterward with A. F. L. Norris 
at Pittsfield, and was admitted to the Belkna]) 
county bar, from the ofiice of the latter, Sept. 3, 
1852. 

He then began the practice of his profession at 
Pittsfield, and continued there until Aj^ril 2, 18G0, 
when he removed to Manchester, and formed a 
partnership with Hon. G. W. Morrison and the 
lion. Clinton W. Stanley. 

In IS^ovember, 1866, he dissolved his connection 
with them, and practiced alone for a year or two, and 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 79 

then associated himself with Henry H. Hnse, con- 
tinuing this partnership till May 24, 1872, when 
he was appointed attorney general of ISTew Hamp- 
shire, to fill the vacancy caused l^y the death of 
Hon. William C. Clarke'. 

He was appointed judge of the supreme court 
of I^^ew Hampshire August 13, 1877, which posi- 
tion he now holds. 

tie represented Pittsfield in the state legisla- 
ture in 1856 and 1857, and was the nominee of 
the Democratic party for member of congress in 
the second district in 1865. 

Mr. Clark married, December 29, 1852, Miss 
Helen M., daughter of the late Capt. William 
Knowlton, of Pittsfield, by whom he has one 
daughter, Mary Helen, and a son, John L. 

Few men in 'New Hampshire have so many 
warm personal friends as the subject of this 
sketch. A very liberal man, of patriotic and 
high-toned impulses, he is widely known and 
esteemed. He has no superior in the state as a 
ready, off-hand speaker. Felicitous in language, 
eloquent in thought, and generous in every im- 
pulse, he is an admirable advocate before a jury, 
and wherever he appears as a public speaker ac- 
quits himself with signal ability. 

As a judge he has won the confidence of his 
associates on the bench, of the bar of the state, 
and of the people, who recognize in him an honest 
and just judge. 



80 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

HOIST. JOniSi p. NEWELL. 

[taken from the history of MANCHESTER.] 

John Plumer ]^ewell was born in Barnstead, 
July 29, 1823. 

He is the son of WiUiam H. and OUve (Den- 
nett) iS ewell, and is one of thirteen children, all 
but two now hving. Mr. ISTewell spent his early 
life upon his father's farm, acquiring an education 
in the district and select schools taught in town, 
and fitting for college at the academies at Roches- 
ter, Pittsfield, and Gilmanton. 

He entered Dartmouth college in 1845, and 
graduated in 1849, at the head of his class. After 
graduating he taught the academy at Pittsfield, 
studying law meanwhile with A. F. L. Il^orris till 
March, 1851, when he went to Manchester to take 
charge of the high school there, which he taught 
till the summer term of 1853. He then resumed 
the study of law in the office of S. H. & B. F. 
Ayer, of that city, and was admitted, in August, 
1853, to the Hillsborough bar. 

Early in the winter of 1853 he opened an office 
in Manchester, and . continued in the practice of 
his profession till the spring of 1855, when he 
resumed charge of the high school, continuing its 
principal till the fall of 1862. 

In May, 1863, he became principal of Pinkerton 
academy, at Derry, N. H., and held the position 
till the summer of 1865, when he returned to Man- 
chester, where he has since made his home, being 
engaged in general business. 





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While at Deny, Mi\ ISTewell had application to 
take charge of Appleton academy at IS^ew Ips- 
wich, K. H., the boys' high school, the girls' high 
school, and the Putnam free school at Newbnry- 
port, Mass., but, having decided to quit teaching, 
he declined them all. 

Mr. JS^ewell was elected by the city councils, in 
February, 1873, mayor of Manchester, and was 
one of its representatives in 1872, 1874:, and 1875. 

He was elected, in 1856, president of the first 
Young Men's Christian Association in the city of 
Manchester, and served one year; and soon after 
the Association was re-organized, in 1868, he was 
again elected its president, and held the office six 
consecutive years. 

He has been, since 1872, deacon of the First 
Congregational church in Manchester; for ten 
years was president of the society connected with 
the church, and for the same number of years 
superintendent of its Sunday school. 

In 1880, Mr. JSTewell was chosen cashier of the 
Derry National Bank, and soon after was appoint- 
ed assignee of the Derry Savings Bank. 

He is at the present time one of the trustees of 
Pinkerton academy at Derry, N^. H., which has a 
fund of nearly $250,000, and is a member of the 
board of trustees of the Elliott hospital in Man- 
chester. 

Ml'. ^N^ewell married, August, 1855, Mary W., 
only daughter of the late Chief Justice Samuel D. 
Bell, by whom he had one child who died in infan- 
cy. His first wife died August, 1859, and he 



82 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

married, June, 1863, Elizabeth M., daughter of 
Hon. T. T. Abbott, formerly mayor of Manches- 
ter, by whom he has one child, Mary Bell, now 
living. 

Mr. iS^ewell is a fine scholar, a Christian gen- 
tleman, and a pleasant, agreeable man. He has 
always, whether mayor of the city, teacher of the 
high school, or president of the Young Men's 
Chi'istian Association, exerted an elevating influ- 
ence upon those with whom he has come in contact. 



JOHN HOKACE KE:N^T. 

John Horace Kent, whose life-like portrait pre- 
cedes this sketch, was the only son of John Kent, 
a native of Rochester, Kew Hampshire, who, 
after a few years' residence in early life in Ports- 
mouth, N. H., married Ruhamah Dearborn, daugh- 
ter of Asa Dearborn, of that town and removed 
to Barnstead, in 1823, where the subject of this 
article was born, October, 10, 1828. 

John Horace attended the Pittsfield and Straf- 
ford academies, the Portsmouth high school (at 
the time John True Tasker, of Barnstead, was the 
princi]:>al), and in 1843, the year in which his 
father died, he with his mother removed to New 
Bedford, Mass., and became a member of the high 
school in that city. 

In 1845, he went to New York to enter a 
wholesale establishment, remaining therein two 
years, performing most efficient service for his 




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employers. He afterward was engaged in the 
steam tannery business in western Pennsylvania 
with his uncle. 

In 1849, at the breaking out of the California 
gold fever, Mr. Kent withdrew from the tannery 
business in order to go to the land of promise, 
and while en route, being detained in Panama for 
a few weeks, he commenced the publication of a 
newspaper called the Panama Star, which proved 
a successful venture, and up to the present time 
has held a leading position among the newspapers 
of the day. Disposing, finally, of his interest 
therein, Mr. Kent went to San Francisco, where 
his abilities were quickly recognized, soon giving 
him many positions of prominence, among them 
a director of the " Society of California Pioneers," 
a member of the first " Committee of Vigilance," 
which was organized in June, 1851, and whose 
record has become an interesting part of the 
history of California; he was also made secretary 
of the Broderick wing of the Democratic com- 
mittee of San Francisco, held an important 
government position under President Pierce in 
the Customs Department, and lastly was elected 
coroner, a prominent and lucrative office, which 
latter position he held for a long time and with 
marked ability. During the memorable Frazer 
Hver mining excitement, he went to British Colum- 
bia as special correspondent, and also accompa- 
nied the builders of the Southern overland tele- 
grajih line, in the same cajjacity, in the interest 
of the San Francisco press. In gleaning the 



84 THE BAENSTEAD REUNION, 

news of those pioneer days, he exhibited great 
tact, and, as the records show, always " came in 
ahead" of his competitors, not only in gathering 
up but in the early transmission of the intelligence 
of the day. 

During his residence in California, Mr. Kent 
visited New England several times, and on one of 
these trips, December, 1852, mari'ied Miss Adeline 
Penniman, the youngest child of Bethuel and 
Sophia Penniman, of N^ew Bedford, Mass., and 
then returned to the Western coast, with his esti- 
mable bride, where he remained until 1860. While 
sojourning on the Pacific slope, Mr. Kent, by his 
keen executive abilities, combined with indomita- 
ble pluck, much needed in those days, won con- 
siderable prominence; his services were in con- 
stant demand, his views were frequently sought, 
for in matters of polity having no sympathy with 
that " as-it-was-in-the-beginning-is-now-and-ever- 
shall-be " idea, he believed in and hailed changes 
which tended to improvements, and hence was 
rightly considered a progressive man, who knew no 
such word as fail, — characteristics which have fol- 
lowed him all through his active life. Mr. Kent 
returned permanently to ]N"ew England in 1860, 
making the trip overland, a good portion of the 
way by stage lines, his devoted helpmeet, and son 
born to them in San Francisco, preceding him by 
steamer via Panama to 'New York. When the 
war of the Rebellion broke out, Mr. Kent becom- 
ing convinced of the righteousness of the North- 
ern side of the dispute, volunteered his services as 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. ' 85 

a private, and joined a Massachusetts regiment, 
going to the Department of ^orth Carolina, thence 
to the Army of the Potomac. Late in 1863, he 
was mustered out of the service, and appointed a 
special agent of the provost marshal's department 
for the district of ^N'ew Hampshire, with head- 
quarters at Portsmouth, holding that office until it 
was abolished. 

Mr. Kent has since that time to the present been a 
resident of Portsmouth, and during this period has 
held several offices of public trust, being twice elect- 
ed city marshal and twice appointed to respon- 
sible positions in the secret service of the U. S. 
treasury department; also has been special officer 
and claim agent for the Eastern railroad, and 
special inspector of customs for the district of 
Ij^ew Hampshire. In 1873 and 1874, he was elect- 
ed as representative to the :N'. H. legislature, and ap- 
pointed a member of Gov. Cheney's staff, with the 
rank of colonel ; in 1876, was appointed sheriff of 
Kockingham county by the governor and council, 
and three times elected to the same by the people 
since the office has been made elective, at present 
holding the position, and has since the commence- 
ment of the publication of this book again been 
complimented with a renomination for another term 
of official life; also that of United States deputy 
marshal, with an enviable reputation in the work 
of investigating crime and ferretting out crimi- 
nals. Col. Kent is connected with several secret 
bodies, including DeWitt Clinton Commandery of 
Knights Templar, St. Andrews Lodge, Washing- 



86 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

ton Chapter, and Davenport Council of Masons, 
Osgood Lodge of Odd Fellows, Storer Post, No. 
1, Grand Army of the Republic, and Sagamore 
Lodge Knights of Honor, all of Portsmouth, ]^. H. 

Thoroughly social and free in his nature, Mr. 
Kent became for some years addicted to drink. 
His downward career seemed rapid; but at last, 
fully realizing that nature was giving way under 
these excesses, he resolved to quit the habit, and 
after a season of treatment at the Washingtonian 
Home in Boston, he came forth a thoroughly 
reformed man, and afterward held the presidency 
of the Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society 
of Portsmouth, the same office in the J^ew Eng- 
land Reformed Men's Association, and of the 'New 
Hampshire State Temperance Association. 

He inaugurated a series of temperance meet- 
ings in various parts of the state, and was the 
principal speaker therein, the happy results of 
these meetings being marked by the reclaiming of 
many hard drinkers, who are to-day blessing 
"Horace Kent" for his noble and unremitting 
work in their behalf, — a work more blessed be- 
cause his own bitter experience had been his 
teacher. Li years of his greatest tribulation, 
brought on solely by drink. Col. Kent had the 
unswerving love and trust of a noble, devoted 
wife and mother whose efforts to reclaim him were 
as unceasing as hope, and at last, after the most 
bitter agonies of spirit, the fruition came, — came 
like a benediction, for the salvation was complete 
and life to each became a new song, — a " te deum." 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 87 

Col. Kent has an only son, Horace Penniman 
Kent, who occupies a government position in Bos- 
ton, and who possesses in a marked degree the 
excellent qualities of his devoted parents. 

Hosts of friends, scattered from Maine's rock- 
bound coast to California's golden shores, attest 
to virtues which ennoble and distinguish character, 
to generosity and benevolence which abound al- 
most to a fault, and bear willing testimony to the 
fidelity, zeal, and earnestness which has followed 
the performance of every trust, to the liberality, 
faithfulness, and read}^ support given every meas- 
ure conducive to the welfare of the community, and 
lastly, to the unswerving friendship of John Hor- 
ace Kent. 



DR. JOSEPH R. HAYES. 

BY ROBERT B. OAVERLY. 

Joseph R. Hayes was born in Barnstead, 
March 7, 1818. His father was Lemuel, son of 
Paul Hayes, late of Alton, IS". H., who was of 
Scotch origin, and whose father was one of the 
early settlers of New England. 

His mother was Abigail, daughter of John Ben- 
net, of ISTew Durham, N". H. His parents were 
married in 1800, and had nine children, seven sons 
and two daughters. 

The father failing in the farming business, and 
the mother dying, the children were early left 
without care and the means of support. 

From this cause the subject of this sketch was 
consigned to the care of his revered grandpa- 



88 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

rents. lie was limited in his school advantages, 
and at the age of seventeen became a student at 
the Free Baptist Institution at Strafford, JST. H., 
now known as Austin academy. Here he was 
fellow-student with Henry Wilson, afterwards 
Vice-President of the United States, and also with 
Zachariah B. Caverly, afterwards an able lawyer 
and secretary of legation to the re])ublic of Peru. 
Both remained his cordial friends all their days. 

From the academy he became a teacher, first in 
1838 and 1839 at Farmington and Dover, I*^. II., and 
then in 1840, at Wilmington, Delaware, where he 
remained until 1847, and while teaching he pur- 
sued the study of medicine. 

Leaving Wilmington, he returned to 'New 
England, and, uniting in marriage with the amia- 
ble Leah D., daughter of Paul Hayes, Esq., of 
Alton, he established himself in the business of 
a druggist and apothecary in the city of Lowell, 
Mass., where ever since he has diligently and suc- 
cessfully prosecuted his profession up to a good 
name and fame, and to an independent fortune. 
Dr. Hayes had three children, but lost them in their 
infancy. The dear wife and mother died in 1874. 

In course of time, Feb. 1883, the Doctor inter- 
married with Mrs. Mary White Lcighton, a lady 
of much amiability, and now in the full promise 
of a continued useful and successful life, he occu- 
pies his stately granite mansion, on the lofty banks 
of the Merrimack, overlooking its limpid water- 
falls and its progressive spindle city. Dr. Hayes 
was the leading man, who by a generous contribu- 





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THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 89 

tion and otherwise induced the writer of this to un- 
dertake the compilation of the History of Barn- 
stead out of the material which had previously 
been collected by the late Dr. J. P. Jewett — a his- 
tory illustrated and poetized so it is now valued and 
advertised in Boston at the price of $5 per copy. 

The Doctor, although always absorbed in his 
professional duties, has often been called by his 
fellow-citizens to impoi'tant places of trust, and 
sometimes he has found time for such duties. He 
has been a director of the city library, is one of the 
trustees of the Lowell cemetery, and a trustee in 
the Central Savings Bank in Lowell. He was one 
of the founders and is a director in a large literary 
society in Middlesex county, Mass., for the ad- 
vancement of science and art, under the corporate 
name of " The Literati." 

Endowed with that equal disposition which 
always creates its own hapj^iness, and with that 
open and flowing benevolence which always pro- 
motes the happiness of others, may the Doctor, 
with his lovely lady, long live and faithfully in his 
sphere continue to adorn his profession, and to the 
end of life nobly fulfil the mission of his man- 
hood. 



hanso:n^ cayer:n^o canj^ey, m. d. 

* Dr. Canney is the son of Paul J. and Eliza 
(Hanson) Canney, both natives of Barnstead. 

The Canney and Hanson families were among 
the early settlers of Dover, N^. H., and zealous 



90 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

and respectable members of the Society of 
Friends, who patiently bore their part in the 
religions persecntions of Governor Wentworth, 
and each suffered in the long- and bloody In- 
dian wars, during which one-twelfth of the in- 
habitants of the province were either killed or car- 
ried captives to Canada. Through these trying 
periods they proved by their acts the steadfastness 
of their faith, although Jeremy Belknap, in the 
second volume of his " Early History of I^ew 
Hampshire," remarks of one of them that " having 
several lusty sons, and always keejDing their guns 
loaded for game, the Indians kept away from him." 

Dr. Canney was born in the immediate neigh- 
borhood of Mount Job, N'orth Straffoixl, Kew 
Hampshire, J^ovember 17, 1839, and lived there 
until his parents removed to Barnstead, to the 
homestead of his grandfather, Caverno Hanson, 
Esq., when he was seven years of age. 

He assisted his parents upon the farm and was 
a pupil in the common schools until old enough to 
attend a preparatory school, when he fitted for 
college at Pittsfield, I^ew Hampton, and Gilman- 
ton academies. 

After teaching in various places, he studied 
medicine with John Wheeler, m. d., of Pittsfield, 
and Prof. A. B. Crosby, of Hanover, ^. H., 
graduating from Dartmouth Medical College in 
the class of 1864. 

He married, Nov. 13, 1864, Ellen M. IN'utter, 
the daughter of Wm. P. and Hannah (Chesley) 
Kutter. The Nutter family was among the first 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 91 

settlers of that part of Dover known as " Bloody 
Point Parish," afterward incorporated under the 
name of ^N^ewington, and came early to Barnstead. 

He has been blessed with two children, Bertie 
Caverno, who lived but a few months, and Gret- 
tie Eliza, now aged 7 years. 

On Jan. 1, 1865, Dr. Canney commenced the 
practice of medicine at Auburn, N^. H., as succes- 
sor of the venerable Nathan Plumer, m. d. There 
upon the shore of the beautiful Lake Massabesic 
the first ten years of his married life were passed 
in the successful practice of his profession. 

He devoted a portion of his time to writing for 
several papers and magazines, but under various 
nom de plumes, for the Doctor thought and still 
thinks that the public consider the man who writes 
poetry a wild dreamer, — hardly capable of the care- 
ful and exact reasoning needful for the practice 
of medicine. 

During the larger part of his residence in Au- 
burn he was superintendent of schools; in 1873 
and 1874, represented Auburn in the legislature; 
was two years a censor of the ]S^. H. Medical So- 
ciety and first vice-president of the N^orth Rock- 
ingham Medical Association. 

In I^ovember, 1874, he removed to Manchester, 
and purchased, in connection with J. A.Wiley, Esq., 
the City Hall drug store, also opening an ofiice at 
No. 7, Hanover St., for the practice of his pro- 
fession, where he still remains. 

In 1875 and 1876 he was city physician, and in 
1876 represented his ward in the legislature. In 



92 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

1878, finding some objectionable features in the 
drug lousiness, he sold his interest and gave his 
entire time to his profession. 

In 1881, he pnrchased an interest in and became 
editor of the literary paper known as " The Girls 
and Boys of Neiu Hamipsliire^^ but finding, after 
one year, that his literary and professional duties 
were more laborious than he anticipated, he dis- 
posed of the paper, devoting his undivided atten- 
tion since to his increasing practice. 



DR. GEORGE W. EMERS0:N^. 

George Washington Emei-son, son of Solomon 
and Deborah Emerson, was born in Barnstcad 
.Octol)er 25, 1823. The family were among the 
first and foremost of those who reclaimed Barn- 
stead from the primeval forest. 

He attended the public schools of Barnstead, 
where he was a close student. 

In 1837, with his two older brothers, Thomas 
and Solomon, and his twin brother Jefferson and oth- 
ers, he helped organize the' Barnstead Brass Band, 
which has had a continued active existence ever 
sinc^ and is now the oldest band in the United States. 
He was elected its leader in 1839, and served as 
such till 1843, when he left Barnstead for Boston, 
Mass., where he engaged as musician in Barnum's 
traveling show, continuing with it for one season. 

In 1814, he went to New York city and engaged 
in the business of publishing maps. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 93 

He went South in 1846, to Xewmarket in the 
valley of Virginia, — commenced the stndy of med- 
icine, in 1847, with Dr. J. D. Hitt. 

In 1819, went to Washington, D. C, and stud- 
ied dentistry with Dr. Kobert Arthur, meanwhile 
attending lectures in the medical department of 
University of Georgetown, D. C. 

In 1852, he went to Philadelphia, and attended 
lectures in the Philadelphia College of Dental 
Surgery. Here his courage was severely tested. 
His means had become so exhausted that in order 
to attend lectures at this term he was obliged to 
take a room in an attic, and to subsist u])on two 
cents' worth of corn meal daily, made into a mush 
with his own hands. But he was successful grad- 
uating with the first honors, receiving the title of 
D. D. S. in February, 1853. 

Dr. Emerson at once located in Glassboro', 
'N. J., and commenced the practice of den- 
tistry. 

Seeking a warmer climate, he went South, and 
located in Grifiin, Georgia, Jan., 1855. Here he 
was very successful. In 1859, Dr. Emerson re- 
moved to the city of Macon, Georgia, and erected 
a fine brown stone front building. The upper 
stories he arranged with special reference to the 
practice of his profession, and when his dental 
rooms were completed, a writer in the JST. Y. Debi- 
ted Journal said: '^Dr. Emerson's dental rooms in 
Macon, Georgia, are decidedly the best appointed, 
most unique, and most convenient of any in the 
United States." 



•94 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION., 

Dr. Emerson liecame one of the leading den- 
tists of the Sonth, his fine operations attracting 
patients from adjoining states. 

After fonrteen years' successful practice in this 
city, his health becoming impaired he determined 
to rest. Renting his fine rooms to Drs. J. P. & 
W. R. Holmes he returned to Barnstead, ^Rov., 
1873. 

On his retiring from joractice the Macon Tele- 
graph and Messenger said : 

" The public will have observed with regret that 
this distinguished dentist has retired from practice, 
at least for a time. Dr. Emerson is a most esti- 
mable gentleman, and has proved himself an ex- 
cellent citizen of Macon. His skill in his profes- 
sion has placed many of our people under per- 
sonal obligations to him. He will be followed by 
the best wishes of the Macon public wherever he 
goes." 

On his return to Barnstead, Dr. Emerson pur- 
chased of his brother the old homestead farm, 
w^here he was born and where his boyhood was 
spent, and has enlarged and refitted the buildings 
thereon, making a beautiful residence. 

Dr. Emerson has devoted his attention in part 
to interests of agriculture. He was president of 
the Barnstead Agricultural and Mechanical Society 
for several years, and to his untiring efforts is 
largely due the success of the town fairs. He 
was also one of the directors of the Belknap 
County Agricultural Society. 



THE BAENSTEAD REUNION. 95 

In 1877 and 1878, he represented Barnstead in 
the legislature, and afterwards was elected to 
offices of trust in the town until he positively re- 
fused to serve. 

Dr. Emerson, by his liberality and public spirit, 
has endeared himself to the citizens of Barnstead 
to an enviable degree. His labors and donations 
for everything touching the welfare or good name 
of Barnstead will long be remembered. 



HON. GEOEGE S. PENDERGAST. 

George S. Peiidergast, son of Deacon Solomon 
and Rebecca Pendergast; born Nov- 19, 1815; 
educated at the common schools, and at Strafford, 
and Gilmanton academies; went to Boston, Mass., 
1837; found employment in a grocery store; was 
occupied as a clerk and for himself in that busi- 
ness, successfully, till 1844; then went to Charles- 
town, Mass., where he engaged in the fancy 
cake and pastry baking business, with success, till 
1862, when he retired from active business. 

Served as one of the assessors of the city of 
Charlestown for the years 18(32 and 1863, and was 
elected an assessor in 1864, but declined to serve. 
Was a member of the Massachusetts house of 
representatives from the above city for the years 
1864 and 1865. Was elected without his knowl- 
edge that he was to be voted for city treasurer and 
collector of taxes, in 1864; but owing to other 
duties he declined to accept the office. Was an 
active member of the recruiting committee during 



90 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

the war of the Kebellion, and, the latter part 
thereof, had full and exclusive charge of the en- 
rollment lists for said city. Near the close of the 
war he received from the enrolled men of his ward 
a handsome silver service, of eleven pieces, as a 
testimonial of their appreciation of his services in 
aid of recruiting. Was elected, 1868, chairman 
of the board of assessors of said city, and con- 
tinued to be re-elected to that office and serve 
therein, till the annexation of the city of Charles- 
town to the city of Boston, January, 1874. Has 
been one of the first assistant assessors of the 
city of Boston every year since said annexation, 
to and including 1883 and 1884, and is elected for 
1884 and 1885. Has written several able articles 
on taxation, notably one on Taxation of Incomes, 
published by the tax commissioners of Massachu- 
setts in tlie appendix of their report on taxation 
and exemption therefrom, in 1875. He is one of 
the trustees and vice-presidents and a member of 
the investment committee of the Charlestown Five 
Cent Savings Bank. On the organization of the 
Mutual Protection Fire Insurance Company, 
Charlestown, in 1864, he was elected one of the 
directors thereof, and continues to serve in that* 
capacity to the present time. 

The subject of this sketch desires to have here- 
with recorded his grateful acknowledgement of the 
very kind consideration received from the citizens 
of Charlestown and Boston, and also his abiding 
love toward Barnstead the home of his childhood. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 97 

HARRIET P. DAME. 

Miss Harriet Patience Dame, daughter of James 
Chadbourne and Pliebe Ayers Dame, was born at 
Barnstead, January 5, 1815. 

Her parents moved to Barnstead about the year 
1797. They then had one son. Five children 
were born in Barnstead, of whom Hai-riet was 
the youngest. 

In 1843, she removed to Concord, N. H., with 
her parents, where she resided until the war of the 
Rebelhon. 

That event at once aroused her patriotism, and 
she anxiously desired to aid the Union cause. 
Kot being permitted to carry a musket, she de- 
cided to become an army nurse, and joined the 
Second Regiment N. H. Vols., as hospital matron, 
in June, 1861, and remained connected with the 
regiment until it was finally mustered out in De- 
cember, 1865 — four years and eight months. The 
pay of a hospital matron was then six dollars per 
month. In 1863, it was increased to ten dollars 
per month, and so remained during the war. 

She was in camp near Washington, D. C, till 
]S"ovember, 1861 ; then at Budd's Ferry, Md., till 
April, 1862, went with the regiment to Yorktown 
and up the Peninsula. She was inside the 
trenches at Fair Oaks while the rebels were bom- 
barding them, and a shell passed through the tent 
occupied by her. 

After that battle, the Union troops retreating, 
she walked a long distance and assisted the sick 
and wounded on the march. 



•98 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

One very dark night she passed in the thick 
wood, not knowing whether she was nearer to 
friends or foes, and for that reason not attempting 
to proceed. 

At this time, she was the only woman in 
the biigade, and frequently nursed the sick 
and wounded of other regiments. She was 
well knoAvn to all the soldiers of the brigade, 
and those of other i-egiments seemed to rival the 
Second in the respect shown her. 

She was with her regiment at Harrison's Land- 
ing and remained there until August, 1862, when 
she left that place on a hospital boat and on arrival 
at Fortress Monroe, was ordered to accompany a 
ship-load of sick and wounded to ]N^ew York. 
She rejoined her regiment at Alexandria, Aug. 
23, 18G2, and participated in the second Bull Run 
Battle, and at the retreat of the army was placed 
on duty as a nurse at a hospital near the old stone 
church at Centreville, Ya.. 

While en route from that point to Washington, 
with sick and wounded, she was taken prisoner, 
but was soon released. 

At the battle of Fredericksburg, in December, 
1862, she suffered much from exposure, but re- 
mained with the sick and wounded until they were 
removed to Washington, where she accompanied 
them. 

There, by universal consent, she assumed charge 
of the supplies sent from ]^ew Hampshire for 
the sick and wounded soldiers from that state, 



THE BAENSTEAD REUNION. 99 

and distributed them to the most needy at the dif- 
ferent hospitals. 

Dm-ing the winter of 1862-3 the Second Reg- 
iment was recruiting. Upon its return to active 
duty, Miss Dame rejoined them, and was at the 
battle of Gettysburg. She remained in the corps 
hospital until the sick and wounded were removed 
to the general hospital. She then rejoined the 
regiment at Point Lookout, where it was guard- 
ing prisoners of war. 

Being worn out by exposure and incessant duty. 
Miss Dame was ordered South to investigate the 
sanitary condition of the N^ew Hampshire troops 
stationed near Charleston, S. C. She sailed 
from ISTew York on the steamer Argo, visited 
Morris and Folly Islands, en route to Fort Gregg, 
and being fired on from Fort Moultrie, returned 
to Hilton Head, and from there went to St. Au- 
gustine, Fla., and ascertaining the impracticability 
•of establishing a general hospital at that point, 
returned North, and, at the request of Gen. 
Sprague, of ISTew York, reported the condition of 
the sick on the boats, while in transitu, as ob- 
served by her, to Surgeon General Barnes, which 
resulted in much good to disabled soldiers who 
were compelled to make long journeys to reach 
suitable hospitals. 

Miss Dame rejoined her regiment, and was at 
the battle of Cold Harbor. Soon after that, the 
original three-years men of the regiment, who 
had not re-enlisted, were mustered out. She re- 
mained with the re-enlisted men, and was for a 



100 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

time ill front of Petersburg, and then at Chapin's 
Farm near Richmond. 

About this time, the army was so continucmsly 
on the march that corps hospitals were established, 
and the sick and wounded sent to them until they 
could be safely moved to hospitals farther north. 

Miss Dame was appointed matron of the 18th 
Corps hospital Sept., 18G4, and had supervision of 
the nurses on duty, and also of the cooking for 
the sick and wounded in the hospital, which at 
times amounted to three thousand. 

She i-emained there until the close of the active 
operations of the war, and then rejoined the 2d 
Kegiment at Manchester, Va., opposite Kichmond, 
and then to Fredericksburg, after which they were 
ordered to Richmond county, between the Poto- 
mac and the Rappahannock rivers. The regiment 
while there suffered more by sickness and death 
than during any ecpial time of its service. 

On the the 25th of December, 1865, the regi- 
ment was mustered out of the service, and Miss 
Dame's army record ended with theirs. Of her 
services Gen. Oilman Marston, for years colonel 
of the regiment, has said: 

" Miss Harriet P. Dame went out with the Sec- 
ond 'New Hampshire Volunteers in June, 1861, 
and remained with that regiment and in the army 
hospitals till after the close of the war. She 
sought no soft place, but wherever her regiment 
went she went, often marching on foot and camp- 
ing without tent on the field. She was always 
present where most needed, and to the suffering. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 101 

whether ' Yank ' or ' Grayback,' it made no differ- 
ence. She was truly an angel of mercy. Miss 
Dame was the bravest woman I ever knew. I 
have seen her face a battery without flinching, 
while a man took refuge behind her to avoid the 
flying fragments of bursting shells. Of all the 
men and women who volunteered to serve their 
country during the late war, not one is more de- 
serving of reward than Harriet P. Dame." 

After the close of the war, Miss Dame remained 
with friends in Washington, D. C. (her home in 
Concord having been broken up), until the sum- 
mer of 1866, when she visited her brothers in 
Wisconsin and Michigan. 

In August, 1867, she was appointed a clerk in 
the Treasury Department, at a salary of nine hun- 
dred dollars per annum, where she still remains, 
enjoying many proofs of the love of the soldiers, 
and the respect of all who know her. 



MISS NAKCY PEOT3ERGAST. 

IN^ancy Pendergast, daughter of Dea. Solomon 
and Rebecca Pendergast, was born at Barnstead, 
^. H., June 1, 1819. 

She received her education at the town schools 
and at Pittsfield academy, and led a quiet une- 
ventful life at home and in her brother's family at 
Charlestown, Mass., until the dark days of the 
Rebellion, when she obeyed the voice of duty and 
gave efficient service as a nurse in the hospitals at 

Point Lookout, and at Annapolis, Md, 

7 



102 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

Ill November, 1862, having decided to labor as a 
nurse, she applied to a friend in Charlestown, who 
was in communication with Miss Dorothy L. Dix, 
who had been appointed by the government su- 
perintendent of nurses, and learning that her 
services were wanted, she went to Dr. Hayward, 
of Boston, for approval and acceptance as hospi- 
tal nurse, and also for transportation papers, and 
in one week after deciding to go, was on her 
way to Washington. 

She met Miss Dix on the train between Balti- 
more and Washington, and accompanied her home, 
remaining with her that night. In the morning 
she was ordered to Columbia hospital, till there 
should be an opportunity for her to go to Point 
Lookout. 

In about ten days Miss Dix ordered her to re- 
port to her next morning at seven o'clock. 

A cattle boat was going down the Potomac to 
Point Lookout, on which she and another nurse 
who like her was waiting for transportation could go. 

They were the only women on the boat, and had 
to accept very meagre accommodations. They 
were served with supper on the boat, but during 
the night the cattle burst through into the kitchen 
and no breakfast could be given. It was not until 
3 o'clock p. M. that they arrived at Point Lookout, 
Dec. 10, 1862. 

There they found plenty of woi-k to be done. 
On the 15th of December, a boat load of wounded 
soldiers arrived from the battle of Fredericksburg, 
which took place the 13th, 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 103 

The nurses were called on to do what they 
could for the poor suffering boys. As there were 
not surgeons enough to attend to them, immedi- 
ately Miss Pendergast, with a basin of water, 
sponges, and bandages, dressed wound after wound, 
and if the gratitude of these sufferers was any 
proof that the work was well done, then surely it 
was a success. 

From the battle of Gettysburg, six wounded 
soldiers were brought on stretchers to her ward; 
but in time they all recovered, ascribing their re- 
covery in a large measure to her assiduous care. 

The soldiers' aid society of Charlestown, Mass., 
and also private individuals sent her many gener- 
ous contributions of delicacies for the sick and 
wounded soldiers, which were thoroughly appre- 
ciated and were very beneficial. She remained at 
Point Lookout till September, 1863, when she 
was so ill with fever and ague, that she was obliged 
to return to her home in Charlestown, and re- 
mained there until the next spring, when Miss 
Dix wrote her asking for her service again. 

In April, 1864, Miss Pendergast reported to 
her at Washington, and was sent to Annapolis, 
Md., where she remained till the close of the war. 

Here she saw more of suffering than ever be- 
fore. The Union soldiers from the rebel prisons 
were landed here. JBoatloads after boatloads of 
these poor, suffering, emaciated soldiers arrived in 
the most forlorn condition, many of them without 
hats or shoes, their clothing in rags, and so weak 
they could hardly walk. 



104 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

It was heart-rending to listen to theii" stories of 
the terrible suffering endured in those prisons. 
Many of them would sink awaj and die, and very 
few probably who reached home ever fully recov- 
ered. 

Since the war, Miss Pendergast has worthily 
filled several positions of responsibility and trust, 
the most note-worthy being that of housekeeper 
and valued friend of the late Kev. James Walker, 
D. D., LL. D., of Cambridge, Mass., Ex-President 
of Harvard College. Since his death, she has 
continued a life of activity and usefulness, but 
often visits her native town, for which she cher- 
ishes an ardent affection. 



JOHlsr D. KUTTEK. 

John Dennett Nutter, the son of John IS^utter, 
4:th, and Hannah (Dennett) ISTutter, was born in 
Barnstead, June 4, 1812, — a few months after his 
father's death. 

His grandfather, Benjamin Nutter, Esq., was 
one of the first settlers in Barnstead, and at 
his house was held the first town meeting in 
Barnstead, of which he was modei-ator, and was 
chosen one of its ^vst selectmen, and continued as 
such for many years. 

His father dying in early manhood, upon his 
mother devolved the care of the family. 

The subject of this sketch remained with his 
mother until his fifteenth year, when he became 
an apprentice of his uncle, Hon. Charles Dennett, 





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THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 105 

of Rochester, ]^. H., where he learned the cabinet 
maker's trade. 

On attainmg his majority, he worked for a time 
at Mont Vernon, 'N. H., and afterwards at Stan- 
stead, Canada. 

For one year, Mr. Nutter was engaged in the 
banking business in Indiana, but sold out his busi- 
ness and returned to Nashua, N. H., and engaged 
in business as a merchant. Afterwards he removed 
to Montreal, Canada, and became a broker, and 
subsequently was also largely engaged in the lum- 
ber business. 

Mr. Nutter has been successful in all his busi- 
ness enterprises and has accumulated a large for- 
tune. 

His residence upon McGill Avenue, Montreal, 
among the wealthy aristocracy, is spacious and 
beautiful ; yet therein reigns the open-hearted hos- 
pitality characteristic of a true son of old Barn- 
stead. 

Mr. Nutter married Miss Harriet Stevens, of 
Mont Vernon, by whom he, has three sons, all 
living. 

Accompanied by his family, Mr. Nutter visited 
Europe, and spent a year among the objects of 
interest found in the cities of the old world. 

Although for many years Mi*. Nutter has lived 
under the flag of a foreign nation, and rarely re- 
visits his native town, yet his interest in its good 
name and welfare is strong and abiding, and its 
citizens rejoice in his prosperity, and proudly 
claim him as an emigrant son of old Barnstead. 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



The following contributions were received from emi- 
grant sons and daughters, and former residents of Barn- 
stead, in aid of the Reunion : 

H. A. Tuttle, Pittsfield, N. H., $25.00 

E. S. Nutter, Concord, N. H., 25.00 

M. V. B. Bdgerly, Manchester, N. H., 25.00 

C. M. Murphy, Dover, N. H., 25.00 

J. G. Sinclair, Orlanao, Fla., 25.00 

Mrs. James R. Hill, Concord, N. H., 25.00 

Geo. S. Pendergast, Boston, Mass., 10.00 
B. G. Adams, Milton, N. H., 5.00 

A. G. Thompson, New York City, 5.00 

S. E. Goodwin, New York City, 5.00 

J. P. Newell, Manchester, N. H., 5.00 

J. D. Nutter, Montreal, Canada, 5.00 

Geo. F. Knowles, Lynn, Mass., 5.00 

H. C. Canney, Manchester, N. H., 6.00 

L. G. Young, M. D., Candia, N. H. 3.00 

N. G. Carr, Concord, N. H., 3.00 

Aaron Whittemore, Jr., Pittsfield, N. H., 2.00 
H. A. Dodge, Concord, N. H., 2.00 

Reuben Edgerly, Gilmanton, N. H., 1.00 

Andrew Bunker, Concord, N. H., 1.00 

N. H. Leavitt, Newmarket, N. H., 1.00 

J. B. Merrill, Concord, N. H., 1.00 



NAMES 

OF 

Emigrant Sons and Daughters of Barnstead, 



AS RETURNED BY 



THE TOWN CANVASSING COMMITTEE. 



[In copying we have omitted the name of the wife, where 
both husband and wife were natives of Barnstead. Such 
cases are designated by a star prefixed to the name of the 
husband. We are aware the list does not include all who 
were or should have been invited, as some names were 
given the Secretary in the hurry and bustle of Committee 
meetings, when an invitation would be forwarded but no 
record made of the name, address, &c., while the post- 
office address of others could not be obtained. We shall 
be agreeably surprised if there are not mistakes in the 
names and residences. — Ed.] 

Abbott, Mrs. Roger Worcester, Mass. 

Adams, P. H. Pittsfield, N. H. 

Adams, Mrs. G. A. Boston, Mass. 

Adams, Wilson N. Pittsfield, N. H. 
Adams, Alvah 0. " " 

Adams, Mrs. N. ^ " " 

Adams, Wm. C. ' " " 

Adams, Hannah Lowell, Mass. 

Adams, Albert Tilton N. H. 

Adams, Frank J. Concord, N. H. 

Adams, Samuel H. Minneapolis, Minn. 

Adams, Austin W. Boston, Mass. 



108 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



Adams, Mrs. Mary 
Adams, Benjamin G. 
Adams, Eben W. 
Adams, Nellie 
Adams, James 
*Aikins, Dr. F. J. 
Aikins, C. H. 
Aikins, Mi's. Annie I. 
Allen, C. H. 
Atkinson, Mrs. E. 
Avery, S. D. H. 
Avery, Samuel E. 
Avery, James 
Avery, W, M. 
Ayers, Mrs. D. B. 



Portsmouth, N. H. 
Milton, " 



Hillsborouo;li, " 

Pittsfield, " 

Gilmanton, *' 

Laconia, " 
Tilton, 

Rochester, " 

Barrington, " 

Rochester, " 

Farmington, " 

Manchester, " 



*Babb, Ira 
Babb, Mrs. Mahala 
Babb, Samuel 
Babb, Darius 
Babb, Albert S. 
Baker, Mrs. A. A. 
Baker, Mrs. S. R. 
Berry, Miss Fannie 
Berry, Charles 
Berry, Abbie 
Berry, Laura 
Berry, Mrs. Freeman 
Berry, Thomas 
Berry, Fred E. 
Berry, Mrs. H. 0. 
* Berry, Plumer O. 
Berry, John M. 
Berry, Charles H. 
Berry, Miss Ardena 
Berry, Mrs. E. 



Strafford, 
Ashland, " 

Pittsfield, " 
Georgetown, Mass. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Epsom, " 

Walnut, Iowa. 
New York City. 
Dover, N. H. 



Concord, " 
Live Oaks, Fla. 
Alton, N. H. 
Farmington, N. H. 

ii. n 

Middletown, Ct. 
Farmington, N. H. 
Dover, " 



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109 



Berry, Alonzo 
Berry, Mrs. Francis 
Bean, J. P. 
Barton, J. W. 
Barton, George 
Barker, Col. T. E. 
Bachelder, Hamuel 
Bachelder, Mrs. S. M. 
* Bunker, Andrew 
*Bunker, Hollis 
Bunker, J. Elbridge 
Bunker, Cyrus 
Bunker, Abram 
Bunker, William 
Bunker, Charles 
Bunker, Harry 
*Bunker, Prof. C. M. 
Bunker, Asa P. 
Bunker, Lyman 
Bunker, Emily 
Bunker, Sadie 
Burns, 0. E. 
Burleigh, Mrs, B. 
Burnham, Daniel 
Buntin, Mrs. Wm. E 
Buzzell, Alfred 
Bickford, A. H. 
Bickford, A. L. 
Bickford, Moses 
Blaisdell, Mrs. Bertie 
Blaisdell, Mrs. Harriet 
Blanchard, John E. 
Blanchard, Mrs. S. M. 
Blanchard, Mrs. R. M. 
*Blake, Dr. Jeremiah 
*Blake, H. D. » 



Alton, N. H. 
Roslindale, Mass. 
Alfred, Me. 
Concord, N. H. 
Dover, " 
Maiden, Mass. 
Salem, " 
Harristown, 111. 
Concord, N. H. 
Metz, 111. 
Kasson, Minn. 
Bethlehem, N. H. 
Manchester, " 
Bethlehem, " 
Concord, " 
Pittsfield, " 
Peacham, Vt. 
Salem, Mass. 
Peabody, " 
Salem, " 
Concord, " 
Yonntrille, Cal. 
Concord, N. H. 
New Durham, N. H. 
Woodstock, Conn. 
Barrington, N. H. 
Boston, Mass. 
Union Ridge Iowa. 
Northwood, N. H. 
Somersworth, " 
Elmwood, R. I. 
Concord, N. H. 
Hudson, " 
Augusta, Ga. 
Gilmanton, N. H. - 
Pittsfield, " 



110 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



Blake, Mrs. Ella 
Bodge, James 
Bodge, Ezra 
Bodge, Mrs. Fanny H. 
Bowen, Mrs. Paulina 
Brooks, Mrs. E. A. 
Brewster, Mrs. E. V. 
Brown, Geo. W. 
Brown, G. S. 
Blunt, D. D. 

Canfield, Rev. H. 
*Canney, Dr. H. C. 
Canney, Rev, A. J. 
Canney, John N. 
Carpenter, Mrs. E. 
Carr, Mrs. Laura Garland 
Carroll, Henry 
Cate, John 
Gate, Mrs. Abigail 
*Cate, N. E. 
Caswell, M. G. 
Caswell, L. 0. 
Caswell, A. B. 
Caswell, G. B. 
Caswell, Edith 
Caswell, Mary H. 
Caswell, Nancy 0. 
Caswell, George 
Caswell, Charles 
Caswell, Bartlett 
Chapman, Mrs S. 
Chamberlin, Mrs. H. 
Chamberlin, Mrs. F. J. 
Chamberlin, Mrs. D. C. N. 
Chamberlin, S. C. 



Springfield, Mass. 
Fall River, " 

a a 

Madbury, N. H. 
Concord, " 
Manchester, N. H. 
Dover, " 

Clarksville, •' 
Quincy, Cal. 

Providence, R. I. 
Manchester, N. H. 
Dakota. 
Dover, N. H. 
Ellenburg, N. Y. 
Concord, N. H. 
Tamworth, " 
Candia, " 
East Flatbush, N. Y. 
North wood, N. H. 
Pittsfield, " 
Palatka, Fla. 
Rumney, N. H. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Canterbury, N. H. 



Strafford 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

East Dennis, Mass. 
New Durham, N. H. 
Farmington, " 
Lawrence, Mass. 
Albany, Vt. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



Ill 



*Chesley, Orrin F. 
Chesley, H. L. 
Chesley, Mrs. Jane 
Chesley, Dr. C. C. 
Chesley, Lyman 
Chates, Mrs. H. J. 
Cilley, Wm. P. 
*Cilley, Sewell J. 
Cilley, Mrs. S. 
*Ci]ley, George H. 
Cilley, Mrs. J. M. 
Clough, John 
Clough, C. W. 
Clough, Horace 
Clough, Frank W. 
Clough, Geo. H. 
Clough, Mrs. M. 
Clough, Wm. A. 
*Collins, T. T. 
Collins, John 
*Collins, C. F. 
Colbath, John 
Couch, Mrs. John 
Clark, Judge L. W. 
Clark, Mrs. Cora 
* Clark, Bradbury 
Clark, Everett 
Clark, Alonzo 
Clark, Emma 
Clark, George D. 
*Clark, Solomon 
Clark, Calvin D. 
*Clark, S. H. 
Clark, Jos. W. 
Clark, Henry 
Clark, Frank 



Dover, N. H. 

Concord, " 
Dover, " 
Frankfort, Kan. 
Underhill, Vt. 
Belmont, N. H. 
Rochester, " 

Westfield, Iowa. 
Barrington, N. H. 
Rochester, " 
Lynn, Mass. 
Newmarket, N. H. 

Rochester, " 
Warrensburg, 111. 
Concord, N. H. 
Alton, " 

Pittsfield, " 
Farming-ton, N. H. 
Lawrence, Mass. 
Manchester, N. H. 
Concord, N. H. 
Harristown, 111. 
Boston, Mass. 

Pittsfield, N. H. 
Rochester, " 
Pittsfield, " 

Lynn, Mass. 

u u 

a a 

u ti 



112 



THE BAENSTEAD REUNION. 



Clark 
Clark 
Clark 
Clark 
Clark 



*Clark, David 



Clark 
Clark 
Clark 
Clark 
Clark 



John 
Jewett 
J. P. 
Alviii 
Albert 



Bvalyn F. 
Frank H. 
Abram S. 
Wm. B. 
Frank 



*Clark, R. S. 
Clark, B. K. 
Clark, Mrs. M. A. 
Clark, Jacob 
Clark, Almira 
Clark, Sydney 
Clark, Mrs. S. A. 
Clark, J. P. 
Clark, Mrs. Alice G. 
Copp, Frank 
Copp, Mrs. Geo. 
Cole, Selathiel, 
Cole, Frank S. 
Cook, Mrs. Eva 
Cook, Ira A. 
Cox, Mrs. Nancy N. 
Cooms, Mrs. M. J. 
Courser, Mrs. Abby H. 
Crockett, William 
*Crosby, John Q. 
* Crosby, Bben 
Crosby, Sarah J. 
Currier, C. C. 



Lynn, Mass. 



Worcester, Mass. 
Albion, Neb. 
Concord, N. H. 

u u 

Strafford, N. H. 
Sioux City, Iowa. 

Westfield, " 
Laconia, N. H. 
Pittsfield, " 
Rochester, " 

Somersworth, N. H, 

Los Angelos, Cal. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Newmarket," 

a a 

Pittsfield, " 

Porter, Me. 
Milton N. H. 
Manchester, N. H. 
Ellensburg, N. Y. 
Henniker N. H. 
Boston, Mass, 
Farmington, N. H. 



ii u 



Tilton, 



Dame, Miss Harriet P. 



Washington, D. C. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



113 



Daniels, Harry P. 
Daniels, Ira 
Daniels, Mrs. Enoch 
*Davis, D. F. 
Davis, Seth W. 
Davis, E. G. 
Davis, George 
Davis, John 
Davis, Ira 
Davis, Hiram 
Davis, S. P. 
Davis, Mrs. Martha 
Davis, Smith, Jr. 
*Davis, Horace 
Davis, Ebenezer 
Davis, Nancy, 
Davis, Frank 
*Davis, David B. 
*Davis, Smith 
Davis, J. R. C. 
Davis, Mrs Betsey 
Davis, Charles B. 
Day, Merven 
Daggett, Mrs. N. P 
Daggett, Alpheus 
*Dennett, Geo. S. 
*Dennett, Charles 
*Dennett, Mark A. 
Dennett, Dr. John P. 
Dennett, Dr. H. E. 
Demeritt, Mrs. Thomas 
Demeritt, Mrs. Maria 
Dean, Mrs. Nancy 
Dearborn, Mrs. H. 
Dimond, Mrs. H. 
Durgin, Frank G. 



Nottingham, N. H. 
Somersworth, " 

Bethlehem, " 

Rochester, " 

Lee, " 

Farmington, " 

Milton, " 

Laconia, " 

Alton, 

Davenport, Iowa. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
St. Johnsbury Vt. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Haverhill, Mass. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Laconia, " 
Pittsfield, " 
North wood, " 
Whitefield, " 
Ludlow, Vt. 
Rochester, N. H. 
Providence, R. I. 
Concord, N. H. 

Gilmanton, " 
Gloucester, Mass. 
Boston, " 

Northwood, N. H. 
Farmington, Maine. 

New York City. 
Danville N. H. 
Pittsfield, " 



114 



THE BAKNSTEAD REUNION, 



Durgin, Helen 
Durgin, Mrs. Geo. 
Durgin, Mrs. J. M. 
Dockham, Warren 
Dockham, Cxowen 
Dockham, Joseph 
Dockham, George 
Dorr, Prof. H. I. 
Dorr, Etta W. 
Dore, Mrs. Herbert 
Downs, George 
Dodge, Mrs. H. A. 
Drake, Mrs. George 
Dow, Chas. J. 
*Do\v, John C. 
Dow, Fred. 
Dow, William H. 
Dow, Samuel 
*Drew, Aaron W. 
Drew, Wm. Garland 
Drew, Orrin G. 
Drew, Alvin 
Drew, Obed 
Drew, Geo. W. 
Drew, Cortes 
Drew, Horace 
Drew, Mrs. Sally 
*Dudley, John H., 
*Dudley, Charles 
Dudley, Charles V. 
*Dudley George W. 
Dudley, Mrs-. Thomas 



Pittsfield N. H. 

a a 

Haverhill, Mass. 
Newburyport, Mass. 



Philadelphia, Pa. 

New York City. 
Farmington, N. H. 
Beverly, Mass. 
Concord, N. H. 
Pittsfield, " 
West Lebanon, N. H. 
Cambridgeport, Mass. 



Campton, N. H. 
Quincy, Cal. 

a a 

Newton, Iowa. 
Fremont, Ohio. 
Newton, Iowa. 
Boston, Mass. 
Lawrence, Mass. 
Gilmanton, N. H. 
Laconia, " 

Farmington, " 
E. Concord, " 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Concord, N. H. 
Gilmanton, " 



Eaton, Mrs. D. F. 
Eaton, Rosie I. 
Eaton, Mrs Abbie 



Pittsfield, 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



116 



Eaton, Mrs. John 
Eaton, Dr. Lysander 
Eaton, Samuel P. 
Eaton, William 
Eastman, Mrs. Frank 
Edgerly, Hon. M. Y. B. 
Edgerly, Prof. J. G. 
Edgerly, A. J. 
*Edgerly, D. G. 
Edgerly, Isaiah 
Edgerly, Mrs. E. G. 
Edgerly, Amy L. 
Edgerly, Geo. E. 
Edgerly, Cynthia A. 
Edgerly, Reuben 
Edgerly, Laura 
Edgerly, Horace 
Edgerly, Mrs. David 
Edgerly, Mrs. E. 
Elkins," Dr. J. P. 
Elkins, Dr. J. S. 
Elkins, Mrs. S. F. 
Emery, Mrs. Mary A. 
*Emerson, Dr. James 
*Eiiierson, Jere E. 
Emerson, Frank 
Emerson, Mrs. Julia A. 
Emerson, Luther 
EmevBon, Charles 
Emerson, J. A. 
*Emerson, A. J. 
Emerson, John 0. 
*Emerson, R. J. 
Emerson, Bela 
Emerson, Eliphalet 
Emerson, Mrs. Julia 



Manchester, N. H. 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Strafford, N. H. 
Loudon, " 
Odgen, Kan. 
Manchester, N. H. 
Fitchburg, Mass. 
Manchester, N. H. 
Gilmanton, " 
Wadley's Falls, N. H. 
Pittsfield, 
Haverhill, Mass. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Gilmanton, " 



Newburyport, Mass. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
New London, N. H. 
Farmington, " 

Boston, Mass. 
Gardiner, Mass. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 

Pittsfield, " 
Westfield, " 
Odgen, Kan. 

Pittsfield, N. H. 
Alton, " 

Lynn, Mass. 
Effingham, N. H. 

Farmington, " 



116 



Emerson, Mrs. Clara S. 
*Evaiis, William 

Flanders, Mrs. Sally 
Flanders, Mrs. Charles 
*Flanders, Enoch 
Flanders, J. D. 
Fogg, C. W. 
Fogg, Mrs. Lucy 
Forbes, Mrs. Hubbai-d 
*Frost, Mrs. William 
Foss, Mrs. Flora 
Fuller, Mrs. George 
Furber, Mrs. Samuel 
Furber, Mrs. Mary A. 
*French, Charles S. 
French, Mrs. Abram 
French, Mrs. Augusta 
French, Mrs. Mercy 
French, Rev. 0. S. 
Frencli, Lucian 
French, A. F. 
French, C. W. 
French, J. C. 
French, Mrs. R. L. 
*French, Levi F. 
French, John P. IL 

Garland, Dr. A. H. 
Garland, H. H. 
Garland, Frank 
Garland, Frink 
Garland, Mrs. Mary D. 
Garland, Mrs. Betsey 
Garland, Miss Josephine 
Garland, Charles H. 



THE BARNSTBAD REUNION. 

Pittsfield, N. H. 



Amesbury, Mass. 
Alton, N. H. 
Lynn, Mass. 

Li ii 

Sutton, Vt. 
No. Andover Mass. 
Rochester, N.. H. 
Medford, Mass. 
Alton, N. H. 

Pittsfield, N. H. 

u a 

Loudon, " 
Ipswich, Mass. 
Bangor, Me. 
So. Sangerfield, Me. 
Galveston, Texas. 
New York City. 
Concord, N. H. 
Pittsfield N. H. 
Greeley, Col. 
Farmington, N. H. 

Coleville, Kansas. 
Chicago, 111. 

u a 

Kingston N. H. 
Alton, " 

u u 

Sheffield, Vt. 



THE BABNSTEAD EEUNION. 



117 



Gear, Albert 
Grandy, Mrs. H. A. 
Grover, Mrs. Wm. 
George, Dr. Franklin 
George, John A. 
*George, Henry W. 
George, Frank 0. 
Grace, Chas. S. 
Grace, Frank 
Gray, Woodbury 
Gray, B. G. P. 
Gray, Orris D. 
Gray, Amos F. 
Gray Mrs. Mary H. 
*Goodwin, Samuel E., 
Goodwin, Gilmau 
* Godfrey, James 
Griffin, Betsey 
Griffin, Charles 
Greene, Wm. R. 
Greenwood, Sidney F. 



Rochester, N. H. 
Concord, " 
Exeter, " 

Macon, Georgia. 
Portsmouth, N. H. 
Pittsfield, " 

u u 

Haverhill, Mass. 

a a 

Beverly, Mass. 

a u 

Pittsfield, N. H. 
Wheelock, Vt. 
New York City. 

Lynn, Mass. 
Lowell, Mass. 

a a 

Concord, Mass. 
Lynn, Mass. 



Hall, J. Frank 
*Hall, Stacy 
Hall, Oram R. 
Hall, Joseph D. 
*Hall, Burley 
Hall, Mrs F. H. 
Hall, Joseph 
Hall, J. 0. 
Hall, John S. 
Hall, Mrs. Daniel 
Hall, Mrs. W. 0. 
Hayes, Dr. Jos. R. 
Hayes, Geo. W. 
Hayes, Stephen 
8 



Farmington, N. H. 

Dover, N. H. 
Stoneham, Mass. 
Rochester, N. H. 

Strafford, " 

u u 

Nottingham, N. H. 
Concord, " 

Strafford, " 

Linden, Mass. 
Lowell, " 
Dover, N. H. 
Worcester, Mass. 



118 



THE BAENSTEAD REUNION. 



Hayes, Jesse 
Hayes, Alvin 
Hayes, Orriii P. 
Hayes, W. W. 
Hayes, Mrs. Lizzie 
Hayes, Mrs. Sally T. 
Hayes, W. P. 
Hayes, John 
Hayes, J. F. C. 
Hayes, Ebeii 
Hayes, Smith 
Hatch, Mrs. E. 
Hanscame, John 
Hanscame, Mrs Mary P. 
Hanscame, Jnlia 
*Hanscame, Lemuel 
Hanscame, Jeremiah 
*Hanscame, A. P. 
Hanscame, Ada 
Hanson, John, 
Hanson, Luther N. 
Hanson, George 
Hanson, Dr. C. W. 
Hanson, Lewis 
Hanson, Jos. B. 
Harvey, Rev. Jos. 
Hawkins, Ella S. 
Hadley Mrs Eva E. 
Higgins, Mrs. P. S. 
Herring, Mrs. James 
*Hoitt, Col. James S. 
*Hoitt, John S. 
Hoitt, John G. 
*Howard, J. W. 
*Howard, Hanson 
Howard, William 



Holstein, Mass. 
Cambridgeport, Mass. 
Lynn, " 

Parmington, N. H. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Dover, N. H. 

Black Hills, Dakota. 
Cleveland, Ohio. 
Gilmanton , N. H. 
Ipswich, Mass. 
Beverly, Mass. 
North wood, N. H. 

Boston, Mass. 
Epsom, N. H. 
Rochester, N. H. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Strafford, N. H. 
Salem, Ohio. 
Cyhoga Falls, Ohio. 
Perrysburg, " 
North wood, N. H. 
Washington, D. C. 
Taunton, Mass. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
EUenburg, N. Y. 
Concord, N. H. 
Manchester, N H. 
Parmington, " 
Laconia, " 

Concord, " 

Alton, " 

Strafford, 
Boston, Mass. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



119 



Hooper, Mrs. William 
Hooper, Mrs. Delia 
Home, James 
Home, Mrs. Mary A. 
Hussey, Mrs. B. 
Hurd, Albert 
*Ham, Dr. 0. F. 
Ham, Mrs. John 
Ham, Wm. F. 
*Ham, J. C. 
. Ham, Mrs. S. A. 
Ham, Ellen A. 
Ham, Mrs. D. 
Ham, Mrs. Samuel 
Heath, Mrs. Lizzie 
Harmon, Mrs. M. E. 
Holmes, Rev. D. G. 
Holmes, Woodbury 
Holmes, Mrs. Mary A. 
Holmes Mrs. Lydia 
Holmes, Charles A. 
Holmes, Clara E. 
Holmes, Mary E. 
Holmes, Cora J. 
Homes, Mrs. Ellen 
Huse, Hon. H. H, 
Huntress, Frank 
Huntress, Nellie 
Hackett, Mrs. Jere. 
Hill, Ruel, 
Hill, Mrs. Mary 
Hill Wm. M. 
Hill, Mrs. James R. 
Hill, Samuel 
*Hill, Warren B. 
Hill, Lewis A. 



Dover, N. H. 
Berwick, Maine. 
Acton, " 

Farmington, N. H. 
Gilmanton, " 
Pittsfield, '^ 
Bethlehem, " 
Mishewakie, Indiana. 
New York City. 
Gilmanton, N. H. 
Boston, Mass. 
Strafford, N. H. 
Rochester, " 

Gilmanton, " 
New Durham, N. H. 
Chicago, 111. 
Farmington, N. H. 
Strafford, " 

u u 

Middleton, Conn. 

a u 

Dover, N. H. 
Strafford, " 

Mancliester, N. H. 
Wolfeborough, " 
Lynn, Mass. 
New Britain, Conn. 
East Kingston, N. H. 
North wood, " 

E. Bowdoinham, Me. 
Concord, N. H. 
North wood, " 
Pittsfield, " 
Alton, " 



120 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



*Hill, Alexis A. 


Lynn, Mass 


Hill, Herbert M. 


u a 


Hill, Mrs. Jolm 


Pittsfield, N. H. 


Hill, John D. 


a a 


Hill, Martha B. 


Newmarket, " 


Hill, Mrs. Samuel 


Strafford, " 


Hill, Jeremiah 


Dunbar, Mich. 


Hill, Benjamin 


Laconia, N. H. 


Hill, John S. 


Saco, Me. 


Hill, John H. 


Amador, Cal. 


Hill, Mrs. Jennie H. 


Strafford, N. H. 


Hill, John 


Rochester, " 


Hill, George 


Manchester, " 


*Hodgdon, S. A. 


Chester, Iowa. 


Hodgdon, Albert 


Grinnell, " 


Hodgdon, Charles 


a a 


Hodgdon, A. E. 


ii i( 


Hodgdon, Frank L. 


Davenport, Iowa. 


Hodgdon, G. W. 


Gilmanton, N. H. 


Hodgdon, Lyman 


Dover, " 


Hodgdon, Wm. A. 


St. Louis, Mo. 


*Hobbs, George 


Pittsfield N. H. 


Hobbs, Frank 


Lynn, Mass. 


Hobbs, Mrs. M. 


Davenport, Iowa. 


Jewett, Rev. S. D. 


Middletown, Conn.' 


Jacobs, T. S. 


Manchester, N. H. 


Jacoby, Mrs. S. F. 


Wilton, Iowa. 


Jenkins, C. E. 


Pittsfield, N. H. 


Jenkins, Miss Sadie 


Porter, Me. 


*Jenkins, William 


West Plattsburg, N. Y 


Jenkins, Louisa 


Boston, Mass. 


Jenkins, Mary H. 


a a 


Jenkins, Orrin J. 


Pittsfield, N. H. 


*Jenkins, Lewis 


Gilmanton, " 


Jenkins, Melvin J. 


Manchester, " 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



121 



Jenkins, Jos. J. 
Jenkins, James 
Jenkins, Jetliro 
Johnson, Mrs. John 
Johnson, Augustus 
Joy, Albert H, 
Joj, Charles 
Joy, Annie 
*Jones, George H. 
Jones, Jenny L. 
Jones, Mrs. William 
Jenness, Mrs. J. J. 
Jenness, Mrs. Sarah 
Jenness, Susan 



Effingham, N. H. 
Concord, " 

No. Berwick, Me. 
Live Oaks, Florida. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Durham, " 
Worcester, Mass. 
Sanborn, Iowa. 
Dover, N. H. 
Pittsfield, " 

Rochester, " 



Kent, Hon. J. Horace 
*Kaime, James 
Kaime, Joanna 
Kaime, G. W. 
Kaime, Kingsbury G. 
Kaime, Samuel J. 
Kaime, Mrs. Belle 
Kaime, George 
Keniston, George 
*Keniston, Bben 
Keniston, G. W. 
Killem, Mrs. M. A. 
Kimball, Mrs. J. W. M. 
Knowlton, Mrs. L. A. 
Knox, Nettie, 
*Knowles, G. F. 
Knowles, S. P. 



Portsmouth, N. H. 
Canterbury, " 

Warrensburg, 111. 
No, Woburn, Mass. 
Stoneham, " 

St. Louis, Mo. 
Oshkosh, Wis. 
Wolfeborough, N. H. 
Somersworth, " 

u u 

Lawrence, Kan. 
Alton, N. H. 
Pittsfield, " 
Pembroke, " 
Lynn, Mass. 



Lang, Mrs. J. J. 
Lang, Mrs. M. V. B. 
Labaron, J. D. 



Alton, N. H. 
Farmington, " 
Cambridge, Mass. 



122 



THE BAENSTEAD REUNION. 



*Langley, Joseph T. 
Langley, Wm". N. 
Lee, Augustus 
Lee, Mrs. Daniel 
Lodge, Mrs. L. 
Lougee, Simeon 
Lougee, Mrs. Dr. 
Leighton, Susie P. 
Lord, John 
*Lord, Horace 
Locke, Mrs. James 
Longfellow, Mrs. M. S. 
Loud, Mrs. A. 
Littlefield, Lavina 
Littlefield, W. P. 
Littlefield, David 
Littlefield, Mrs. Susan 
Lyford, F. H. Rev. 

Marston, Nettie 
Mason, Mrs. Hannah 
Marden, Mrs. D. H. 
Mayo, Mrs. J. F. 
*McNeal, John, 
McNeal, D. W. 
McFarland, Mrs. Wm. 
McNeil, William 
McDuffee, Mrs Jane 
*Meader, J. G-. 
Meader, Mrs. D. P. 
Marble, George 
Marsh, D. K. 
Marsh, Hiram 
Murphy, Hon. 0. M. 
Munsey, Dr. Geo. Frank 
*Munsey, Curtis C. 



Pittsfield, N. H. 
Exeter, " 

Rochester, " 
Barrington, " 
Neola, Iowa. 
Farmington, N. H. 
Rochester, " 
Farmington, " 
Manchester, " 
Salem, Mass. 
Farmington, N. H. 
Groveland, Mass. 
Portsmouth N. H. 
Kennebunk, Me. 
Rollinsford, N. H. 
Dover, " 

New Durham, " 
Littleton, " 

Chichester, " 
Canterbury, " 
Chichester, " 
Boston, Mass. 
Chicago, 111. 

Concord, N. H. 
Haverhill, Mass, 
Tewksbury, " 
Boscawen, N. H. 
Newmarket, " 
Somersworth, " 
Concord, " 

a ii 

Dover, " 

Greenville, " 
Danvers, Mass. 



THE BAENSTEAD EEUNION. 



123 



*Mimsey, Woodbury 


Pittsfield, N. H. 


Munsey, Robert 


Chichester, " 


Munsey, G. W. 


Gilmanton, ' " 


Munsey, D. C. 


Lampasas, Texas. 


Munsey, Mrs. Mahala 


Dover, N. H. 


Munsey, Georgia 


a a 


Munsey, A. T. 


Colorado. 


Munsey, H. W. 


Lynn, Mass. 


Munsey, Frank L. 


Goffs Falls, N. H. 


Munsey, Levi D. 


Clarksville, " 


*Murray, James 


Middletown, 111. 


Murray, Mrs. Nancy 


St. Paul, Minn. 


Marshall, Andrew 


Pittsfield, N. H. 


*Merrill, J. B. 


Concord, " 


Merrill, S. F. 


Euclair, Wis. 


Merrill, Frank 


New York City. 


Merrill, Lyman 


Concord, N. H. 


Merrill, Mrs. Sarah 


Gilmanton, " 


Merrill, Mrs. Maria 


Pittsfield " 


Merrill, C. E. 


Gilmanton, " 


Merrill, Dr. S. A. 


Belmont, " 


Miles, Sarah A. 


Sheffield, Vt. 


Miller, Mrs. Bliphalet 


Lowell, Mass. 


Miller, Mrs. Harry 


Concord, N. H. 


*Morrison, Abram 


Madbury, " 


Morrison, John 


So. Berwick, Me. 


Morrison, Mrs. D. H. 


Alton, N. H. 


Morrison, Mrs. J. I. N. 


a u 


Morrison, G. W. 


u a 


Morrison, Mrs. Sarah 


Boston, Mass. 


*Mooney, H. P. 


Pittsfield, " 


Morrill, Rev. James 


Pittsfield, N. H. 


Morrill, Mrs. H. 


ii. a 


Morrill, Jos. G. 


U il 


Morrill, Josephine 


a a 


Morrill, Mrs. C. 


t( (( 



124 THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 

Moore, Mrs. L. F. Manchester, N. H. 



Newell, Hon. J. P. 
Newell, Wm. H. 
Newell, Albert H. 
*Newell, Moses D, 
Newell, Chas. D. 
*Newell, Wm, J. 
Newell, Samuel A. 
Newell, L. V. 
Newell, Dr. A. C. 
Nelson, Edward 
Noyes, Mrs. G. F. A. 
Nutter, Col. E. S. 
Nutter, James, 
Nutter, Hon. John D. 
Nutter, Benjamin 
Nutter, Geo. L. 
*Nutter, James, 2d, 
Nutter, Van D. 
Nutter, John 
*Nutter, Jas. A. 
Nutter, Joseph S. 
Nutter, William E. 
Nutter, John P. 
Nutter, Wm. 
*Nutter, A. L. 
* Nutter, Orrin S. 
Nutter, C. W. 
Nutter, Mercy 
Nutter, Asa N. 
Nutter, Geo. E. 
Nutter, John M. 
Nutter, Charles C. 
Nutter, Dr. G. W. 
Nutter, Franklin C. 



Gilmanton, " 

Elo, Wis. 
Albion, Neb. 
St. Joe, Hamilton Co., 
York Co., Neb. [Neb. 
Portsmouth, N. H. 
Albion, Neb. 
Gilmanton N. H. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Concord, N. H. 
Worcester, Mass. 
Montreal, Canada. 
Toronto, Canada. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Bear Grove, Minn. 
Northwood, N. H. 
Pittsfield, " 
Swampscott, Mass. 
Salem, " 

Boston, " 

Concord, N. H. 
Gilmanton, " 

Lynn, Mass. 

u u 

Rochester, N. H. 
Gilmanton, " 
Alton, " 

Dover, " 

a u 

Concord, " 
Manchester, " 
Pittsfield, " 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



125 



Nutter, David R. 
Nutter, Ebenezer 
Nutter, Nathan 
Nutter, Clias. E. 
Nutter, George F. 
Nutter, J. H. 
Nutter, John C. 
Nutter, Mrs. G. L. 

*Otis, Joseph 
Otis, Mrs. Ai 
Otis, Mrs. Sarah 
Ordway, Louisa 
Osgood, Mrs. Perley 
Osgood, Dyer 

Parshley, Albert J. 
Parshley, J. J. 
*Parshley, Ira 
Parshley, John 
Palmer, Mrs. Hannah 
Parker, Lavina 
Parmenter, Nellie 
*Page, Winthrop 
Page, Hiram 
Page, Nathaniel 
Patterson, Mrs. Helen 
Parsons, Rufns 
Pettigrew, Frank 
Pettigrew, Mary J. 
Perry, Mrs. H. J. 
Perry, James 
Pendergast, Hon. Geo. S. 
*Pendergast, Isaac IS. 
Pendergast, Nancy 
*Pendergast, Charles F. 
9 



Hopkinton, N. H. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Rochester, N. H. 
Farmington, " 
Cedar Keys, Florida. 
Somers worth, N. H. 
Rochester, " 

Concord, " 

Newmarket, " 

Farmington, " 

Strafford, " 

Loudon, " 



Rochester, " 

Ver shire, Yt. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 

Deerfield, " 
Epsom, " 

Farmington, " 

Pittsfield, " 

u u 

Gilmanton, " 
Lynn, Mass. 
Gilmanton, N. H. 
Newmarket, " 

a a 

Manchester, " 
Lynn, Mass. 
Boston, Mass. 
Newmarket, N. H. 
Boston, Mass. 
Newmarket, N, H. 



126 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



Pendergast, John H. 
Peiidergast, Jas. A. 
Pendergast, Solomon 
*Pendergast, George B. 
Pendergast, Jolin B. 
Pendergast, Mrs A. M. 
Pendergast, Jane 
Pendergast, Frank C. 
Perkins, True 
Perkins, Mrs. John 
Perkins, Mrs. Charles 
Perkins, Mrs. Samuel 
Prescott, Mrs. Perley 
Prescott, Mrs. Miranda 
Pray, Mattie A. 
Proctor, William 
Proctor, Samuel N. 
*Proctor, Thomas D. 
*Pickering, Hon. J. L. 
Pickering, Mark 
Pickering, Joseph 
*Pickering, C. C. 
Pickering, Nathan 
Pickering, Calvin 
Pickering, Fred. 
Pickering, Mrs. John 
Pierce, Henry H. 
*Pierce, Albert 
Pitman, Dr. Eben 
Pitman, A. J. 
Pitman, Samuel 
Pitman, Joseph 
Pitman, Mrs. Jona. 
Pitman, Alvin 
*Pitman, C. H. 
Pitman, Frank D. 



Salisbury, Mass. 
Saux Centre, Minn. 

Cleveland, Ohio. 
Chicago, 111. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Alton, N. H. 
Concord, " 
Pittsfield, " 
Loudon, " 
Concord, " 
Pittsfield, " 
Farmington, N. H. 
Hampton Falls, N. H. 
Dover, " 

Haverhill, Mass. 
Lowell, " 

Beverly, " 

Concord, N. H. 
Cambridgeport, Mass. 
Salem, Mass. 
Newport, Me. 
Durham, N. H. 

a u 

Concord, " 
Boston, Mass. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Boston, " 

Strafford, N. H. 

Manchester, " 
Lynn, Mass. 
Farmington, N. H. 



THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



127 



Pitman, John T. 
Pitman N. T. 
Pitman, Mrs. Emma 
Pitman, John 
Pitman, George 
Pitman, Lougee 
Pitman, Eben, Jr. 
Pitman, Susan 
Pitman, R. M. 
Piper, Rev. C. E. 
Piper, Mrs. Mary E. 

Quint, Alonzo Hall, D. D. 
Quimby, Rev. M. A. 

Rand, Dr. Jos. B. 
Rand, Elizabeth 
Rand, Chas. F. 
Randall, Mrs. Belle 
Randall, Mrs. A. S. 
*Randall, Jeremiah 
Randlett, Mrs. J. F. 
Ricker, Joseph 
Riddler, Mrs. Nancy E. 
Rines, Mrs. Emily 
Russ, Mrs. Hattie A. 
Russell, Jos. C. 
Rollins, Samuel G. 
Rollins, John M. 
Rollins, T. E. 
Rollins, Mrs. J. W. 
Rollins, Mrs. A. L. 
*Roberts, Geo. S. 
Roberts, Jona. E. 
Roberts, Frank 
Robinson, Mrs. Phebe 



Pelham, N. H. 
Concord, " 

Farmington, " 
Alexandria " 
Danvers, Mass. 
Manistee, Mich. 
Bath, Me. 
Lowell, Mass. 

Wakefield, Mass. 
Gilraanton, N. H. 

Dover, " 

Gilmanton, '' 

Hartford, Vt. 
Lowell, Mass. 
Alton, N. H. 
So. Brooks, Me. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Gilmanton, N. H. 
Boston, Mass. 
Portland, Me. 
Boston, Mass. 
Concord, N. H. 
Ossipee, " 
Boston, Mass. 
E. Boston, " 
Oshkosh, Wis. 
Corning, N. Y. 
Boston, Mass. 
Alton, N. H. 
Warrensburg, 111. 



Dover, N. H. 



128 THE BAENSTEAD REUNION. 

Ross, John Salem, Mass. 



Sinclair, Hon. John G. 
Savage, Mrs. Moses H. 
*Sackett, Hiram M. 
Sackett, Frank B. 
Sargent, John 
Sargent, Mrs. Harriet 
Sanborn, Mrs. Mary 
Sanborn, Dr. G. H. 
Sanders, Mrs. W. C. 
Selden, Mrs. John 
Scruton, Thomas 
Scruton, Walter G. 
Scribner, Mrs. S. 
Scriggins, Joshna C. 
Scriggins, Charles 
Scriggins, William 
Seward, G. H. 
* Seward, Frank 
Smith, Mrs. Josephine 
Smith, Geo. F. 
Smith, George 
Smith, Mrs. C. 
Small, Alden 
*Smart, N. T. 
*Smart, Ansil C. 
Smart, F. A. J. 
Smart, Mrs. Mary 
Simpson, Mrs. S. A. 
Snell, George, 
Snell, Clement 
Snell, Darius 
Sleeper, J. 0. 
Sleeper, C. W. 
Sleeper, Mrs. B. F. 



Florida. 
Boston, Mass. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Boston, " 
Hopkinton, N. H. 
So. Newmarket, N. H. 
Henniker, " 

Greeley, Colorado. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Strafford, " 
Pittsfield, " 
Lewiston, Me. 
Storm Lake, Iowa. 
Sandwich, N. H. 

a a 

Alton, " 

Concord, " 

ii u 

Campton, " 
Centre Harbor, N. H. 
Strafford, " 

Effingham, " 

Concord, " 

Effingham., " 

Washington, D. C. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 

Pembroke, " 
Rochester, " 

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Farmington, " 



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129 



Souza, Mrs. A. J. 
Spencer, Alvin 
Shepard, Luther E. 
*Shackford, William 
Shackford, James 
*Shackford, H. H. 
*Shackford, A. W. 
Shackford, Alphonso 
Shackford, Elbridge G. 
Shackford, Charles J. 
Shannon, Nathaniel H. 
Shaw, Mrs. Emily 
Short, Mrs. Abbie E. 
Standish, Mrs. L. Miles 
Stanton, Mark 
*Straw, Samuel 
Straw, John W. 
Straw, Edwin D. 
Straw, Alonzo 
Straw, Simon 

*Tasker, J. M. 
Tasker, Frank 
Tasker, Mrs. Seth 
Tasker, Mrs, Gilbert 
Tasker, Mrs. Joseph 
Tasker, Mary 
Tebbetts, Orran W., Esq. 
*Tebbetts, Israel C. 
Tebbetts, Daniel P. 
Tebbetts, Ephraim 
Tebbetts, Mrs. Ella 
Tebbetts, Mrs. Addie, 
Tuttle, Hon. H. A. 
Tuttle, Judge John 
*Tuttle, Henry F. 



Concord, N. H. 
Somersworth," 
Lowell, Mass. 
Concord, N. H. 

Saugus, Mass. 
Farmington, N. H. 
Providence, R. I. 
Dubuque, Iowa. 
Lynn, Mass. 
Rochester, N. H. 
Pittsfield, . " 
Boston, Mass. 

Barrington, N. H. 
Concord, 

Farmington, 

Alton, 

Myrtle St., Lynn, Mass. 

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Boston, " 

Strafford, N. H. 
Pittsfield, " 
Boston, Mass. 
Laconia, N. H. 

Manchester, N. H. 
Salem, Mass.. 
Lynn, " 
Franklin, N. H. 
Pittsfield, " 
Farmington, " 
Pittsfield, " 



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THE BARNSTEAD REUNION. 



Tuttle, Chas. S. 
Tuttle, Frank P. 
Tuttle, Mrs. George 
Tutttle, Mrs. C. H. 
Tuttle, Mrs. Albert G. 
Thompson, Mrs. A. H. 
*Thompson, Edward 
Thompson, Edward, Jr. 
Thompson, William 
Towle, Hon. Geo. H. 
Towle, Roby M. 
Towle, Frank 
Towle, Samuel 
Towle, Daniel 
Towle, James 
Towle, Mrs. Betsey 
Towle, Mrs. Susan 
Twombly, Mrs. Elvira 
Twombly, Mrs. Emily 

Walker, Dr. A. C. 
Walker, George F. 
Walker, Mrs. R. D. K. 
Walker, Ansel G. 
Walker, Samuel 
Walker, Mrs. Hannah 
Walker, Miss Sarah E. 
Wallace, Mrs. James 
Wallace, Mrs. Wm. 
*Waldron, Oliver 
Warren, Dr. Albert 
Watkins, Mrs. Geo. 
Watson, Mrs. J. 
* Webster, Hon. R. S. 
Welch, Eben 
Welch, Samuel 



Nashua, N. H. 

(( (( 

Pittsfield, " 
Augusta, Georgia. 
New York City. 
St. Stephens, N. B. 
So. Berwick, Me. 



Deerfield, N. H. 



Northwood, " 



Haverhill, Mass. 
Pittfield, N. H. 
Kingston, " 
Strafford, " 
Pittsfield, " 

Greenfield, Mass. 
Newmarket, N. H. 
Portsmouth, " 
Detroit, Mich. 
Newmarket, N. H. 
Gilmanton, " 
Dover, " 

Charlestown, Mass. 
Northwood, N. H. 
Madbury, N. H. 
Madrid, Spain. 
Portsmouth, N. H. 
Gilmanton , " 
Melrose, Mass. 
Lowell, " 
Boston, " 



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131 



Welch, Clark 
Welch, Edwin 
Welch, Mrs. Mary- 
Welch, Timothy 
Welch, Frank 
*Wheeler, Dr. John 
Wheeler, Dr. P. H. 
*Wheeler, Luke 
Whitcomb, D. H. 
Whittier, Mrs. H. 
White, Rev. F. J. 
*Wentworth, Henry R. 
*Wentworth, A. J. 
* Went worth, C. W. 
Winkley, Alonzo 
Winkley, J. M. 
Winkley, Mrs. J. 0. 
Winkley, Benjamin 
Winkley, David 
Winkley, W. P. 
*Winkley, John S. 
Winkley, Mrs. D. B. 
Winkley, Paul H. 
Wingate, William 
Wingate, Mrs. Lyman 
Willey, Everett 
Willard, Richard 
Willard, Mrs. John 
Willard, Oliver 
Woodward, William 
Woodward, Edwin 
*Woodhouse, J. L. 
Woodhouse, John L. 
Woodhouse, Mrs. G. W. 
Woodhouse, Dr. N. W. 



Strafford, N. H. 
Rochester, " 
Battle Creek, Mich. 
Pittsfield, N. H. 
Straflford, " 
Pittsfield, " 
Alton, " 

Westfield, Iowa. 
Fitzwilliam,N. H. 
Portsmouth, " 
Chester, " 

Dover, " 

New Durham, " • 
Lynn, Mass. 
Lawrence, " 
Stoneham, " 
Chelsea, " 
Strafford, N. H. 
Berwick, Me. 
Chicopee, Mass. 
Strafford, N. H. 



Farmington, " 
Rochester, " 
Lynn, Mass. 
Sutton, Yt. 

Barton, " 
Exeter, N. H. 

Walnut, Iowa. 
Wilton, " 
Laconia, N. H. 
Wilton, Iowa. 



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Young, Dr. S. W. 
Young, Dr. Lysander 
Young, Mrs. Sal ma L. 
*Young, Stephen 
Young, A. J. 
Young, G. W. 
Yonng, A. W. 
Young, H. A. 
Young, Alva A. 
Young, George 
York, Mrs. R. G. 



Pittsfield, N. H. 
Candia, " 

Lynn, Mass. 

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Pittsfield, N. H. 
Laconia, N. IT. 
Lyun, Mass. 

Concord, N. II. 
Ipswich, Mass. 
Farmington, N. H. 



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